Re: [Xen-users] Most stable Linux for running xen hypervisor?

["Austin S. Hemmelgarn" <ahferroin7@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2016-06-01 09:16, Keith Roberts wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I’ve had issues with upgrading a xen VM host server from opensuse 12.3
> to 13.1.
>
> I seem to have hit this bug here now:
>
> https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=864430
>
> Can anyone on the list kindly recommend a distribution and version of
> Linux they think is the most stable for running the xen hypervisor, and
> VM’s in Paravirtualisation mode please?
Stable is a pretty subjective term.  I know people who use RHEL who have 
upgrade issues when dealing with Xen, and I also know people who run 
Arch who have none.  Most people call Arch less stable than RHEL 
(because it gets more updates and has more up-to-date software), but 
that doesn't mean that it's more buggy than RHEL, it just means that 
they get more updates.
I personally use Gentoo with the appropriate ~* keyword set for the 
system (usually ~amd64, but I do have some ARM systems too), which is 
supposedly one of the most unstable configurations available, but I've 
had no issues with Xen upgrades other than the unavoidable requirements 
to keep the hypervisor and tools version synced and to reboot as soon as 
possible after upgrades.  Part of that may be the fact that the Gentoo 
packages for Xen are mostly unmodified from upstream other than applying 
XSA patches, but I think a bigger part of it is that I'm not using any 
virtualization management tools on top of Xen (the fewer things you 
have, the fewer things can go wrong).
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