Re: [Xen-users] Xen and linux-vserver on a PPC G5

[Christophe KINNE <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le Wednesday 20 January 2010 13:01:14 Pasi Kärkkäinen, vous avez écrit :
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 01:36:22PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 12:20:10PM +0100, Christophe KINNE wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I've a server, running on i686, with linux-vserver enabled which runs
> > > severals vservers. I need to configure a spare server for it but the
> > > only hardware available at this time in the stock is a PPC G5.
> > >
> > > Will it work if I use Xen to virtualise a backup of this server ? I
> > > suppose it will... but i've no certitude so if someone has already
> > > tried or if someone knows any limitation that will prevent this
> > > configuration to work i'll appreciate your feedback.
> >
> > Xen currently doesn't support PPC.
> >
> > There's some early version of Xen for PPC available,
> > but I don't know how well that works.
> >
> > There was a thread about that recently on xen-devel mailinglist,
> > so you could search the mailinglist archives for that.
>
> The thread is here:
>
> "[Xen-devel] XEN Support for IBM JS20 PowerPC":
> http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2009-12/msg00769.html
>
> Keir comments about Xen PPC support here:
> http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2009-12/msg00774.html
>
> "The last stable branch to include a PowerPC port was Xen 3.2, so you'd
> have to go back that far."
>
>
> The Xen ARM project seems to be based on the PPC port:
> http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2009-03/msg01797.html
>
> -- Pasi

Ok thank a lot for the links.

I had seen a forum post dated from May 2006 talking about upcomming PPC 
support that's why I made a mistake.

Regards,
Christophe KINNE.

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