Re: [Xen-users] OES2

[Bart Coninckx <bart.coninckx@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 06 August 2010 20:33:04 Nick Couchman wrote:
> > Well both really. For starters my Hypervisors are SLES10SP3 but won't
> > virtualize SLES10SP3 in HVM mode. I get I/O problems and hence kernel
> > panics.
> > No problems with SLES10SP2.
> >
> > And as far as OES2 is concerned: this is a different animal though than
> > SLES10, esepecially since I also us Novell Clustering Services, requiring
> > special kernel modules etc. The afore mentionned problems could inspire
> > me to
> > go the PVM road (which would benefit performance as well of course), but
> > not
> >
> > sure if everything will keep on working (I'm looking to P2V an existing
> > OES2
> >
> > cluster).
> >
> > thx,
> >
> > B.
> 
> You definitely should go the paravirtualized route in OES2.  I don't know
>  of any services that require OES2 to run in HVM mode - in fact, I'm sure
>  Novell has designed it specifically to operate in PV mode.
> 
> -Nick
> 
> 

OK, I've read about some nasty things regarding NSS on PVM but that was with 
local drives. Since we use iSCSI that might be less of an issue. I'll just 
fire up a PVM guest, rsync everything to it while the services are dead and 
we'll see what happens.


cheers,

B.

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