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On Jan 24, 2008 8:37 AM, Tom Horsley <tom.horsley@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Various linux distros come with xen supported after a fashion
with xen patches developed for one kernel hacked into the
kernel they want to use (with varying degrees of success :-).

We've been using xen for a while at work to try and provide
development and testing platforms for a slew of different
linux distros to check out our software under lots of
different conditions.

The experience has been educational, but I can't say it has ever
provided a really satisfactory set of nice stable virtual
machines.

If you could go with any distro for a DomU and tweak it in any
way you like, what would be your idea setup for hosting
virtual machines?

I think it really depends on what you want to use it for. Also, I think that people will have different biases and experiences.

I think personally that if you are just doing server stuff only, debian or ubuntu both have good package support and also very good package and also install from source HOWTOs. If you want cutting edge package support (with some breakage expected) I would recommend Fedora.

Best overall supported, but without latest Linux kernel, is of course from source (or a binary release) using the XEN 2.6.18 kernel (or the one that is currently directly supported by the Xen Source software group) from xen.org.

Things will get much better once all domU support has been merged into the mainline Linux kernel. Has anyone heard about a serious push on paravirt_ops and the like from any of the major players (RedHat, Novell, IBM, Citrix, etc.) that would get full domU Xen support? I know Jeremy called for it at the last Xen summit, I wonder if companies are taking action?

I would like to hear what others recommend too.

Best Regards,
Todd

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