Re: [Xen-users] Choosing Debian or Ubuntu as dom0

[Lukas Laukamp <lukas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Am 04.12.2012 16:17, schrieb Andreas Hilboll:
> Hi all,
>
> I need to set up three hosts as Xen dom0. I'm quite familiar with
> Debian-type distributions, i.e. Debian and Ubuntu. I'm wondering which
> distro is better suited for a dom0 system. In particular, I haven't been
> able to find Xen 4.2 packages for neither Ubuntu Precise nor Debian.
> It would be nice to have XCP working, but I noticed that the Xen wiki
> recommends switching to Debian SID. However, I'm quite reluctant to run
> an unstable distro on a production machine.
>
> Summary of my questions:
>
> * Is there a way to get Xen 4.2 in either Ubuntu or Debian
> (not-unstable) without compiling from source?
> * Which distro has better Xen support *in the repository*?
> * Is there a way to get XCP working in either Ubuntu or Debian
> (not-unstable)?
> * Are the improvements from 4.1 to 4.2 good enough to make the trouble
> of self-compiling (in case there are no packages) worthwhile?
>
> Thanks for your insight!
> Cheers, Andreas.
>
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Hello,

I would take Debian Squeeze. At the end it is a question of which you 
like more. The compilation of Xen 4.2 is very simple and discribed in 
the Wiki. You can do this in a chroot to prevent installing all needed 
packages in the production system itself. The deb make target is very 
useful this will create a deb package of the Xen distribution so you can 
simple install and uninstall the core components very easy, you just 
will need to install a few additional libs over apt/dpkg like libjpeg 
because they are needed for the QEmu Backend but not a dependency of the 
created deb package. Make sure that you made the in the wiki mentioned 
configfix that everything is installed on the correct place 
(--install-layout=deb)
For nativ Dom0 support in the kernel which is not given in the normal 
squeeze Repos (2.6.32 kernel) you can use 3.2.0 from the backports repo 
(http://backports.debian.org).
Best Regards

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