Re: [Xen-users] Most stable Xen distro?

[Florian Manschwetus <florianmanschwetus@xxxxxx>]

Even on the risk to start the usual distro-flame, i just add, my gentoo 
64bit 3.2 xen runs pretty good based on 2.6.21 -xen sources.
Florian

Mark Smith schrieb:
> > Is there a consensus on which distro is the best for running a Xen dom0?
> >  I have tried Debian Etch (Xen 3.0.3/2.4.18 kernel) but it was having
> > problems with the domU's thinking the (virtual) hard drive was bad.
> >  I upgraded to Xen 3.2 hypervisor and tools (Using Etch Backports) and that
> > helped quite a bit (errors are not fatal but still there) but this left the
> > kernel untouched and I assumed that it would be best to get a kernel
> > compiled with the same version of hypervisor you are using.
> >
> >  I then tried Ubuntu Gutsy (Xen 3.1/2.6.22 kernel) but the domU guests hang
> > while booting.
> >
> >  I would prefer a Debian Etch dom0 but will go with whatever works best.
> >
> >  So to clarify.. Is there a Xen distro package / Kernel package combination
> > that works best?
> >  I would consider compiling from scratch but I am not sure that would do any
> > better.
> >
> >  Any suggestions?
> I setup my Xen box on 3.0.1 back almost two years ago.  I tried really
> hard to use a Debian dom0 but was unable to get it to work - notably
> at the time it didn't have drivers for my SATA card, so I tried
> building my own kernel.  Wasn't very happy with the fragility of the
> setup, so I went to CentOS 4 and it worked amazingly well.
>
> Honestly, you don't do much with the dom0.  If you're doing Xen right,
> your dom0 is almost untouched.  Just sits there.  So I can highly
> recommend using something that works really well (CentOS, Fedora Core,
> etc) and putting Debian/Ubuntu/etc as your domUs.  That's what I do!
>
> Just last week I updated to Xen 3.2 as well, and things are running
> great right now.
>
> Caveat lector: I am using Xen kernels I compiled myself, I am not
> using any distro packaged anything.  I probably could use packaged
> stuff with 3.2, but back in the 3.0.1 days, the packages weren't that
> good IMO.  If you use the packages, your experience may vary.  :)

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