Re: [Xen-devel] Remus wiki page updated

[Keith Coleman <list.keith@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 10:24:10AM -0700, Brendan Cully wrote:
>> On Thursday, 08 July 2010 at 11:32, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
>> > On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 01:21:38PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
>> > > Hello,
>> > >
>> > > http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Remus
>> > >
>> > > I just updated that wiki page with some info to avoid confusion,
>> > > and also linked that page to a couple of other wiki pages.
>> > >
>> > > Let us know if there's something missing or wrong on that page.
>> > >
>> >
>> > Brendan: I wrote "Shared storage" to the requirements on the wiki,
>> > since it's listed on the first paragraph on the Remus docs,
>> > but later on it seems Remus doesn't require shared storage?
>> >
>> > Is this correct?
>>
>> Remus doesn't expect shared storage -- in fact, it requires distinct
>> disk images for correct buffering of speculative disk writes.
>>
>> I see what you're referring to in the documentation: "So, the first
>> thing you should do is make sure that you can live-migrate your VM (in
>> this mode your guest's disk must be available through shared storage
>> on both the primary and backup)"
>>
>> That sentence is only meant to apply to live migration (xm migrate
>> --live). I'll clarify the documentation about that.
>>
>> Thanks very much for updating the wiki page!
>>
>
> Ok, I updated the wiki page.
>

Last I checked you could not run HVM guests with PV drivers. If that's
still the case it should certainly be mentioned.

Keith Coleman

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