Re: [Xen-users] New to Xen

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Niels Dettenbach wrote:
> will try to point out the last time:
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> 3.) rtfm before (!) ask to an large audience like this - this is quasi
> obligatory to all of "us" as others
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> 4.) i answered your questions as usual - XCP or commercial Xen is very
> suitable for newbies. There are many (!!!) official and third party mini
> howtos and quick start guides around how to start and work with xen - just use
> a search engine or take looks at the official Xen website.
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> 6.) As an "experienced Linux expert" it should nearly equal which linux distro
> do you use for your Dom0 as the concept is widely the same.
Not for nothing, and speaking as an experience Xen user and several-year 
member of this list....
IMHO, the original poster asked what struck me as three eminently 
reasonable questions:
- what's "the shortest path to install a Xen Dom0 and then Xen guest 
images?" and more specifically
- for a pointer to "a Xen enabled distribution that would enable me to 
immediately start configuring DomU guests,"
- and a pointer to "good step by step introduction or tutorial on how to 
install the Guests in bridged and Nat mode respectively"
Given the complexity of Xen, and the paucity of good documentation, 
these seem perfectly reasonable questions.
The first two responses were direct, and rather obnoxious attacks.

A couple of us suggested looking at OpenSuse (still the only distro I 
know of that makes an explicit point of integrating Xen rather than 
treating it as an add-on).
Someone else suggested "The book of XEN" as a good reference.  Given 
that there are now about 7 Xen books out, of varying age, but all costly 
- that's a useful piece of information as well.
(By the way - any opinions on the best current HowTo for Xen on Debian - 
specifically Xen 4.1 and/or XCP on Squeeze; with bonus points for a 
high-availability configuration?)
Miles Fidelman



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