Some background - I have a couple of NetBSD (i386) boxes and CentOS 5 boxes that I want to virtualise and I''m trying to work out which OS will be most suitable as the dom0. I have a desire to run at least RAID1 and ideally ZFS mirroring on the dom0 so I can have all the domU''s not have to worry about disk redundancy etc. My hardware : I have a brand new Intel E8200 core2duo and an Intel G33 chipset motherboard that the BIOS claims supports virtualisation, and 6GB of RAM and a pair of 500GB SATA HDDs - so I should be able to use HVM to run some domU''s without needing them to be xen-aware. I want to, in particular, get a SCO OpenServer 5.0.5 box running somehow in a virtual machine if possible with xen, if all else fails then with VMware. I''m evaluating whether to use NetBSD 4.0 amd64, some stable(!) version of linux (CentOS 5?) or OpenSolaris bxx as the dom0. I''d really like to use OpenSolaris with ZFS boot/root if it''s possible to do this in a dom0 arrangement as it''s my much preferred filesystem, but am not sure how stable the OpenSolaris stuff is at this time? Can anyone here let me know if I''m dreaming or if this is achievable and not overly difficult to get working with current builds of OpenSolaris? Any good war stories? This message posted from opensolaris.org
Read inline. - Thanks Ajeesh On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 02:17 -0800, Carl Brewer wrote:> Some background - I have a couple of NetBSD (i386) boxes and CentOS 5 boxes that I want to virtualise and I''m trying to work out which OS will be most suitable as the dom0. I have a desire to run at least RAID1 and ideally ZFS mirroring on the dom0 so I can have all the domU''s not have to worry about disk redundancy etc. > My hardware : I have a brand new Intel E8200 core2duo and an Intel G33 chipset motherboard that the BIOS claims supports virtualisation, and 6GB of RAM and a pair of 500GB SATA HDDs - so I should be able to use HVM to run some domU''s without needing them to be xen-aware. I want to, in particular, get a SCO OpenServer 5.0.5 box running somehow in a virtual machine if possible with xen, if all else fails then with VMware. >I am not sure about SCO OpenServer 5.0.5, Ideally it should be possible.> I''m evaluating whether to use NetBSD 4.0 amd64, some stable(!) version of linux (CentOS 5?) or OpenSolaris bxx as the dom0. I''d really like to use OpenSolaris with ZFS boot/root if it''s possible to do this in a dom0 arrangement as it''s my much preferred filesystem, but am not sure how stable the OpenSolaris stuff is at this time? >OpenSolaris xVM is currently stable with whatever functionality it claims, all libVirt library functions are not yet supported.> Can anyone here let me know if I''m dreaming or if this is achievable and not overly difficult to get working with current builds of OpenSolaris? Any good war stories? > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > xen-discuss mailing list > xen-discuss@opensolaris.org
> Some background - I have a couple of NetBSD (i386) > boxes and CentOS 5 boxes that I want to virtualise > and I''m trying to work out which OS will be most > suitable as the dom0. I have a desire to run at > least RAID1 and ideally ZFS mirroring on the dom0 so > I can have all the domU''s not have to worry about > disk redundancy etc. > My hardware : I have a brand new Intel E8200 core2duo > and an Intel G33 chipset motherboard that the BIOS > claims supports virtualisation, and 6GB of RAM and a > pair of 500GB SATA HDDs - so I should be able to use > HVM to run some domU''s without needing them to be > xen-aware.What HVM has to be aware of , if not xen ? I want to, in particular, get a SCO> OpenServer 5.0.5 box running somehow in a virtual > machine if possible with xen, if all else fails then > with VMware. > > I''m evaluating whether to use NetBSD 4.0 amd64, some > stable(!) version of linux (CentOS 5?) or OpenSolaris > bxx as the dom0. I''d really like to use OpenSolaris > with ZFS boot/root if it''s possible to do this in a > dom0 arrangement as it''s my much preferred > filesystem, but am not sure how stable the > OpenSolaris stuff is at this time?Would consider Ubuntu 7.10 as Dom0.> > Can anyone here let me know if I''m dreaming or if > this is achievable and not overly difficult to get > working with current builds of OpenSolaris? Any good > war stories?This message posted from opensolaris.org
> Some background - I have a couple of NetBSD (i386) boxes and CentOS 5 > boxes that I want to virtualise and I''m trying to work out which OS will > be most suitable as the dom0. I have a desire to run at least RAID1 and > ideally ZFS mirroring on the dom0 so I can have all the domU''s not have to > worry about disk redundancy etc. > My hardware : I have a brand new Intel E8200 core2duo and an Intel G33 > chipset motherboard that the BIOS claims supports virtualisation, and 6GB > of RAM and a pair of 500GB SATA HDDs - so I should be able to use HVM to > run some domU''s without needing them to be xen-aware. I want to, in > particular, get a SCO OpenServer 5.0.5 box running somehow in a virtual > machine if possible with xen, if all else fails then with VMware. > > I''m evaluating whether to use NetBSD 4.0 amd64, some stable(!) version of > linux (CentOS 5?) or OpenSolaris bxx as the dom0. I''d really like to use > OpenSolaris with ZFS boot/root if it''s possible to do this in a dom0 > arrangement as it''s my much preferred filesystem, but am not sure how > stable the OpenSolaris stuff is at this time? > > Can anyone here let me know if I''m dreaming or if this is achievable and > not overly difficult to get working with current builds of OpenSolaris? > Any good war stories? > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > xen-discuss mailing list > xen-discuss@opensolaris.org >Hi Carl. For your desired environment, I would recommend evaluation of OpenSolaris. It should be good enough since CentOS has a Xen guest kernel and can be paravirtualized. As for NetBSD, I know it has support for being a Xen host, so it should also have a guest kernel as well. Performance for paravirtualized guests is pretty good and there isn''t really any major issue with those particular operating systems under xVM. (Xen) Again, try for yourself, but it should be okay. Things are also rapidly progressing as for development, so if there''s a problem for some reason, report it and there''s people working on it. James