Re: [Xen-users] Which distro to use for Dom0

[Donny Brooks <dbrooks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/12/2011 12:00 PM, Christian Zoffoli wrote:
> debian and xen are actually in different planets ...live migration is a
> pain and there are many problems in general.
>
> If you whant something stable, updated and so on, suse sles 11 sp1 is
> the way.
>
> Here are the main reasons:
> - it's based on xen 4.0 + many interesting additions (for example
> virtual machines snapshots -->  **not only disk snapshots**)
> - it's integrated with the new cluster stack (pacemaker and friends)
> - it's integrated with OCFS2 (with many interesting patches in the tree)
> - it's integrated with CLVM (on pacemaker&  friends)
> - it has pv over hvm drivers for linux and windows (in linux pv over hvm
> for 64bit VMs is better performing)
> - it has a fully working and certified infiniband stack
> - it's more lightweight than redhat (it's possible to make very light
> installations comparable in size/occupied resources to debian)
> - suse xen kernel is also the starting point of the citrix xenserver
> ...so it's not something different  / unmaintained etc
>
>  From a performance perspective I suggest you to directly use CLVM for VM
> images storage because I've seen poor performances in QCOW2 over OCFS2
> setups.
>
> The only big problem I can see in the future of suse is the acquisition
> by a microsoft controlled company of novell ...by the way also citrix is
> very microsoft dependant ...so the soup is almost the same.
>
>
> Best regards,
> Christian
I was looking into Suse SLES 11 and it is a no go for us. Being a small 
state agency with no usable budget for IT we cannot afford the $349 
subscription for one year. Unless I am missing something there and they 
have a totally free version.
So it looks like Fedora 14 (or centos 6) is it.

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