Hello I am starting out on Xen. I have a P4 machine with 512Mb RAM. The only issue i am facing is selection of the right linux distribution. If anyone can recommend one of the following: a) slackware b) debian c) FC3 Appreciate any help. -- Asaf Maruf Ali PING Systems Network Security-Linux-Consulting 605, 6th Floor, Clifton Centre, Block 5, Clifton, Karachi-75600 Pakistan Tel # 5872438, 5868275 Fax # 5868927 http://www.ping.com.pk "PING is a Micro$oft free environment" _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Le Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 04:56:30PM +0600, Asaf Maruf Ali [asaf@ping.com.pk] a écrit:> Hello > I am starting out on Xen. I have a P4 machine with 512Mb RAM. The only issue i > am facing is selection of the right linux distribution. > > If anyone can recommend one of the following: > > a) slackware > b) debian > c) FC3We use Debian as Dom0 and DomU, and working well. But like many « which Linux distribution is the best » questions, you should probably use the one you know :) -- Dominique Rousseau Neuronnexion, Prestataire Internet & Intranet 57, route de Paris 80000 Amiens tel: 03 22 71 61 90 - fax: 03 22 71 61 99 - http://www.neuronnexion.fr _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
It shouldn''t matter much - as the other poster said, you might as well choose the one you''re most familiar with. Debian has Xen 2.0-stable packages (in the experimental repository). FC4 (not 3) has Xen 3.0-unstable packages, SuSE 9.3 has Xen 2.0-stable packages. For other distros, Xen support should be quite easy to add. Cheers, Mark On Wednesday 15 June 2005 11:56, Asaf Maruf Ali wrote:> Hello > I am starting out on Xen. I have a P4 machine with 512Mb RAM. The only > issue i am facing is selection of the right linux distribution. > > If anyone can recommend one of the following: > > a) slackware > b) debian > c) FC3 > > Appreciate any help._______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Asaf Maruf Ali wrote:> Hello > I am starting out on Xen. I have a P4 machine with 512Mb RAM. The only issue i > am facing is selection of the right linux distribution. > > If anyone can recommend one of the following: > > a) slackware > b) debian > c) FC3I noticed you didn''t ask about gentoo. I set up my xen system using gentoo and I''ve become increasingly disenchanted with gentoo as a distribution. It gives your fantastic control and has a wonderful up-to-date set of packages but the update process is killing me. It takes forever especially when you have five virtual machines all with different USE variables. It wouldn''t be so bad if you could automate the install process but it''s so manual you can''t help but sit there and babysit it. I usually have to spend something like eight hours per month managing the updates of six machines what with all the broken emerges and configuration file merging. My vote would be for a debian variant like ubuntu. I have ubuntu running on my astronomy laptop and other than the fact I''ve had to build xephem and qastrocam by hand, it''s been really wonderful in terms of management etc. It''s almost at a point where I am considering redoing my xen environment with ubuntu. ---eric -- http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.03/view.html?pg=5 The result of the duopoly that currently defines "competition" is that prices and service suck. We''re the world''s leader in Internet technology - except that we''re not. _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 10:51:28AM +0100, Mark Williamson wrote:> It shouldn''t matter much - as the other poster said, you might as well choose > the one you''re most familiar with. > > Debian has Xen 2.0-stable packages (in the experimental repository).These are 2.0.5 though so they miss some useful features, like being able to name vifs. I started with these and ended up building from source anyway. _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
> If anyone can recommend one of the following: > > a) slackware > b) debian > c) FC3 > > Appreciate any help.I''m happy with Debian. I wrote a detailed HOWTO based on Adam Heath''s Packages: http://www.xmlvalidation.com/xen_howto_sarge.0.html Christian _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users