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

[Stephan Seitz <s.seitz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You,re right,

the ubuntu xenified kernels can't be used for productive use. I don't know
why the ubuntu guys are porting to the 2.6.24. I might be wrong, but even
on latest server hardware, Xen's 2.6.18.8 is the best choice if want to
get rid of dom0 panics ;)

Henri Cook schrieb:
> I had *very* bad Ubuntu/Xen experiences, even with Hardy Heron. As much
> as i'm loathe to recommend a non-debian based dist, it appears that most
> of the happy successful users, use Redhat (fedora? possibly CentOS)
>
> I might be wrong, the Ubuntu packages ended up crashing my machine
> multiple times in a day because of kernel bugs on high I/O
>
> Henri
>
> Doug Breshears wrote:
> > 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 assume, you've only checked via xm console?
You might want to add

extra='xencons=tty1'

in your domU config to get a shell.


If you want to stay with ubuntu/gutsy:

I've recently setup a small repository which contains Xen3.2.0 for gutsy/amd64
at http://boreas.netz-haut.net/

You might also want to try 2.6.18.8 (running on different boxes w/ no problems)
http://boreas.netz-haut.net/pub/kernelpack-2.6.18.8-xen.tar.gz

cheers

Stephan




> > 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?
> > Thanks.
> >
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