Re: [Xen-users] RE: Fully virtualized guest boot problem

[Andrew McGregor <andy@xxxxxxxx>]

Petersson, Mats wrote:
> > > I don't see anything wrong in the configuration or the log messages.
> > Yeah same here...I dont think anything is wrong with the 
> > config. So thats
> > the reason i suggested him other distro so that if he couldnt 
> > get hold of
> > the problem, he could move onto more stable version of Xen with stable
> > distro if changing distro is not a problem.
> Yes, but another option would be to use the stable xen releases from
> XenSource. Most distro's use a "snapshot+bugfixes" approach to their
> builds - they can't always sync their releases with the XenSource stable
> releases, and thus will have to "live with" back-porting and patching
> some particular version of Xen [just grabbing a new "latest" isn't a
> good idea when stabilizing for release, cherry-picking the "best" of the
> latest patches is a much better way - otherwise you may get some new
> "badness" when fixing a particular problem]. 
Totally agree.  Have had a variety of success (mostly none) when testing 
with Etch and/or unstable xen packages.  Moved to build from src and 
went into production problem free within days.  I am still happily using 
Etch packages for kernel image, modules, libc6-xen and xen-tools.
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Andrew McGregor - TXM.MOBI Ltd.
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