Fedora xen - Nov 2006 - FC6/Xen -- any show-stopping issues?

I upgraded one of my boxes from FC4 (worked great with xen) to FC5 and
have waited for months for the issues with iptables/NAT/kernel crash to be
sorted out and corrected. Now all seems well; FC5 and xen seem ready to
go.

But... FC6 is available. So I''m trying to decide if I should go with
FC5/xen or upgrade to FC6/xen (since this box isn''t being used yet).

Before I commit the box to production, I''d prefer upgrading to FC6/xen
so
I don''t need to upgrade it in 4-6 months.

Are there any known, nasty show-stoppers with FC6 and xen? or with FC6 in
general?

This machine will be used to host several VMs: firewall, web server, mail
server, dns, squid, etc. 32 bit, only Fedora FCx dom0 and guests.

Thanks,

Dave

On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 01:21:46PM -0800, master@bradleyland.com
wrote:
> I upgraded one of my boxes from FC4 (worked great with xen) to FC5 and
> have waited for months for the issues with iptables/NAT/kernel crash to be
> sorted out and corrected. Now all seems well; FC5 and xen seem ready to
> go.
> 
> But... FC6 is available. So I''m trying to decide if I should go
with
> FC5/xen or upgrade to FC6/xen (since this box isn''t being used
yet).
> 
> Before I commit the box to production, I''d prefer upgrading to
FC6/xen so
> I don''t need to upgrade it in 4-6 months.
> 
> Are there any known, nasty show-stoppers with FC6 and xen? or with FC6 in
> general?
With the latest errata we pushed to FC5, the Xen stacks & kernels on both
FC5 and FC6 are practically identical[1] - they''re both running 2.6.18
kernels
with Xen 3.0.3  hypervisor & kernel & userspace bits. So in terms of
guest
OS compatability, stability,performance, etc you shouldn''t see any
difference
between Xen in FC5 & FC6 (assuming both a fully yum update''d). Thus
I''d
recommend FC6 since you''ll get a longer lifetime before needing to do
another
major upgrade.

Regards,
Dan.

[1] In fact FC5 is currently a couple of changesets ahead of FC6, but
we''ll
    have an errata for FC6 to update this soon...
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On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, master@bradleyland.com wrote:
> Are there any known, nasty show-stoppers with FC6 and xen? or with FC6 in
> general?
For me, broken or severely degraded /dev/random support.

Paul
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