[Xen-users] Which to deploy

[Jonathan Tripathy <jonnyt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Everyone,

I come from a VMWare background so I'm very new to Xen, however since 
it's released under the GPL, Xen suits our requirements very well.
We are about to co-located our first server in a datacentre a few 
hundred miles away, so we won't have good physical access to the box 
after installation.
We are very much a Ubuntu shop, and try to use Ubuntu everywhere we can, 
and wish to use Ubuntu on all the DomUs. Stacklet has some Ubuntu images 
which work on Xen 3.x
When picking a hypervisor/Dom0 distro, I have read a few things that if 
you're new to Xen, you should just install CentOS 5.5 and select the 
"visualisation" option during install, and away you go. I am torn 
between doing this, and installing Ubuntu Server on bare metel and 
compiling and installing Xen 4.0 from scratch. It's a trade off between 
an older, tried & tested codebase to a newer, but more feature rich 
codebase.
I know that Ubuntu 10.04 comes with a PV DomU kernel (not sure if thats 
pv_ops or not...)
I would appreciate some advice on what to do. I would really only be 
able to get physical access to the box maybe once every 12-18 months.
Thanks

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