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Xen: finishing the job

Posted Mar 4, 2009 18:33 UTC (Wed) by bgilbert (subscriber, #4738)
In reply to: Xen: finishing the job by kev009
Parent article: Xen: finishing the job

Proven and stable? You must be using a different Xen than I have. In my experience, getting Xen to work reliably on a given system is an incredible amount of work, when it's possible at all. And it mostly involves blind tinkering, since there's often no indication of how or why things are breaking.

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Posted Mar 4, 2009 20:48 UTC (Wed) by kev009 (subscriber, #43906) [Link]

Try RHEL or CentOS. Even better with Xen 3.3.1 from gitco.de. Google my username and xen for details.

I am using this a production rack across a few 1st gen Opterons and it is fantastic. As an aside, VMWare wont do 64bit guests on these CPUs but Xen will.

Xen: finishing the job

Posted Mar 5, 2009 8:27 UTC (Thu) by leighbb (subscriber, #1205) [Link]

I have been using Xen under Debian for a few years now (has it been that long?) and in my experience is is both straightforward to setup and rock solid.

In the early days I was using unofficial packages, but since Etch everything worked "out of the box". I have just upgraded to Lenny and so far (touch wood) it remains as robust as ever.

I have a nice 8GB dual-CPU Opteron server running 64-bit dom0 and domU's. This box does not support hardware virtualisation, so from my point of view Xen is the only option to get near-native speed and 64-bit guests.