[Xen-users] RE: The death of XEN by Novell

["Jason Douglas" <jdouglas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Federico,

I have been out of the office for a while and just read this thread.  Did you 
get your issue resolved?  Was Lynn (or someone else from Novell) able to help 
you?  Please let me know.  Thanks.

Jason

>>> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at  6:06 PM, in message
<000001c8eb8e$bb469e70$31d3db50$@com>, "Venefax" <venefax@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> Dear Lynn
> Why don't you take ownership of the case since obviously the engineer is not
> up to date?
> If you log into the box you may notice that I am pinning the dom0 to VCPU 0,
> and excluding the domu's  from using it. I also restricted dom0 to 4 GB out
> of 127.
> Is this setup what causes the issue?
> When that happened, a while earlier, I was doing a backup of a large
> database over the network. The curious thing is the largest database backup
> finished fine. It blew-up when I was backing up the other smaller database,
> or maybe the first large database blew some buffer and the second got
> affected. I cannot know, but that was the only operation that was unusual
> that night. The Windows boxes have a note with a minidump, which probably
> can be used to trace what driver is the culprit. I can do the same operation
> tonight of somebody wants to set up some traces.
> 
> I can be reached at 954 444 7408, 24x7.
> Yours
> Federico
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lynn Bendixsen [mailto:lbendixs@xxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 7:21 PM
> To: 'Mark Williamson'; 'Antoine Benkemoun'; Venefax; Ky Srinivasan
> Cc: stephen.spector@xxxxxxxxxx; xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: The death of XEN by Novell
> 
>>>> On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 11:14 AM, in message
> <039901c8e9c2$e5dd4530$b197cf90$@com>, "Venefax" <venefax@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote: 
>> Subject: The death of XEN by Novell (case number 10406546031)
>> 
>> According to Novell, Xen has a flaw that in fact means it is useless.
> I have 
>> a single supported system with SLES SP2, where I have 3 Windows VM's
> and 5 
>> Linux VM's. In each of the Windows VM's I have 8 Virtual CPU's,
> because I 
>> have a vital SQL Server installed where my company runs all its
> business. The 
>> data comes precisely from the Linux virtual machines, and having the
> database 
>> "right there" has proven extremely efficient. But all my three
> Windows VM's 
>> crashed simultaneously yesterday and I lost two hours of business. I
> am using 
>> of course the right Novell drivers, etc., every piece of the puzzle
> in place. 
>> Novell already checked that. The engineers showed me a technical note
> that 
>> says that having more than one Virtual CPU in a Windows VM leads to
> crashes.
> 
> The technical note you refer to here is outdated.  It is for SLES 10
> SP1 and earlier. Here is a link to our current Support Document for Xen
> in SLES 10 SP2.
> http://www.novell.com/rc/docrepository/public/37/basedocument.2008-06-10.975
> 2681390/SUSE_Linux_Enterprise_10_SP2_Virtualization_Technology_Support_Techn
> ical_White_Paper_en.pdf
> To summarize breifly: we support multiple vcpus for Windows guests in
> our SLES10 SP2 and later hosts.  Any issues encountered with multiple
> VCPUs in windows should be reported and its certainly a high priority
> for us to help you get it working.  All of the testing we do has 2 or 4
> vcpus by default in each Windows VM.
> 
>> But then we cannot have any windows VM at all, hello!!! This means
> that the 
>> $35.000 box that I bought is the wrong box, because now I need to
> remove my 
>> windows VM and create a separate windows installation, and order more
> 
>> hardware, spend more money. It means that XEN is useless, because if
> it only 
>> can virtualize Linux, actually Virtuozzo (Open VZ) has a lot less
> overhead, 
>> far less. The beauty of Xen is that it is supposed to virtualize
> Windows and 
>> Linux together. Now, that dream is gone. In case somebody wants to
> look at my 
>> Novell case number, it is 10406546031
> 
> 
> 
> Lynn Bendixsen
> Software Engineer
> lbendixs@xxxxxxxxxx
> 801-861-2887
> 
> Novell, Inc. 
> SUSE* Linux Enterprise 10 SP2
> Your Linux is more than ready 
> http://www.novell.com/linux
> 
> 
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