I''m looking for a distro that supports XEN on x64. Are there any distros that are production ready for this platform? I''ve just tried openSuSE 10.0, but found it to be buggy. I don''t want to build from source as I don''t have the resource to manage updates, patches, etc. Thanks in advance ... ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Dec 24, 2005 at 1451 +0000, Christopher Snow appeared and said:> I''m looking for a distro that supports XEN on x64. Are there any distros that > are production ready for this platform? I''ve just tried openSuSE 10.0, but > found it to be buggy.I run Debian Sarge 3.1r1 on AMD64 with full 64-bit support. The system is a workstation, not a Xen system though. But it runs absolutely stable since June. I use it regularly at the office and did not encounter any problems. Best, Lynx. -- "From the delicate strands, between minds we weave our mesh: a blanket to warm the soul." --- Lady Deirdre Skye (SMAC) --- _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Hi Lynx, Was the install handled by apt? Will the patches/updates be handled automatically by apt? Or, will I need to check for bug fixes and manually apply them? Many thanks, Chris Quoting RenéPfeiffer <lynx@pentex.at>:> On Dec 24, 2005 at 1451 +0000, Christopher Snow appeared and said: > > I''m looking for a distro that supports XEN on x64. Are there any distros > that > > are production ready for this platform? I''ve just tried openSuSE 10.0, but > > found it to be buggy. > > I run Debian Sarge 3.1r1 on AMD64 with full 64-bit support. The system > is a workstation, not a Xen system though. But it runs absolutely stable > since June. I use it regularly at the office and did not encounter any > problems. > > Best, > Lynx. > > -- > "From the delicate strands, > between minds we weave our mesh: > a blanket to warm the soul." > --- Lady Deirdre Skye (SMAC) --- > > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-users mailing list > Xen-users@lists.xensource.com > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users >---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Your best bet for this is to wait till Fedora 5 x86-64 is released. On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 14:51 +0000, Christopher Snow wrote:> I''m looking for a distro that supports XEN on x64. Are there any distros that > are production ready for this platform? I''ve just tried openSuSE 10.0, but > found it to be buggy. > > I don''t want to build from source as I don''t have the resource to manage > updates, patches, etc. > > Thanks in advance ... > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-users mailing list > Xen-users@lists.xensource.com > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users >_______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Dec 24, 2005 at 2129 +0000, Christopher Snow appeared and said:> Hi Lynx, > > Was the install handled by apt? Will the patches/updates be handled > automatically by apt? Or, will I need to check for bug fixes and manually > apply them?I used the AMD64 netinstall boot image and did a standard install. I use apt to handle all the packages (all the apt tools work, aptitude dito), and the AMD64 architecture is already handled by Debian''s security team, so you get your AMD64 updates from security.debian.org, just as other architectures. Best, Lynx. -- "From the delicate strands, between minds we weave our mesh: a blanket to warm the soul." --- Lady Deirdre Skye (SMAC) --- _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
I currently have an Gentoo AMD64 system running a Xen kernel quite
happily. Nothing with Gentoo is simply point n'' click, but if
you''re
not afraid of the command line for the install, it''s wonderful.
Here''s
my install process:
1) Follow the Gentoo Handbook for AMD64 (www.gentoo.org->docs...)
2) Don''t use a Genkernel initrd (which is acutally an initramfs), as
initramfs doesn''t seem to work with the Xen kernel. This means your
DOM0 root fs can''t be on LVM.
3) Make sure udev is version 70 or later with the command `udevinfo
-V`. I think it should be for Gentoo 2005.1, but if it''s not, do:
emerge --sync
emerge udev
4) When they tell you to emerge gentoo-sources, instead do:
echo ''app-emulation/xen ~x86'' >>
/etc/portage/package.keywords
echo ''sys-kernel/xen-sources ~x86'' >>
/etc/portage/package.keywords
emerge xen xen-sources
5) I''ve had problems starting with the .config that emerge xen-sources
makes. Instead, download the xen sources directly from xensource.org,
do a `make world`, and copy the .config file it creates into
/usr/src/linux. If that sounds like a bunch of trouble, just e-mail me
directly and I''ll gladly send you the .config files I always start
from.
6) Compile a xen kernel:
cd /usr/src/linux
make ARCH=xen menuconfig
make ARCH=xen
cp vmlinuz /boot/kernel-2.6.12.6-xen
make ARCH=xen modules_install
7) Slightly modified grub config:
title Gentoo / Xen 3.0
root (hd0,0)
kernel /xen.gz
module /kernel-xen root=/dev/sda5
8) NFS defaults on Gentoo (64 or 32)seem unhappy under Xen. When you
do an NFS mount, use intr,tcp,rsize=32768,wsize=32768 as options.
Happy Xening!
On 12/24/05, René Pfeiffer <lynx@pentex.at> wrote:> On Dec 24, 2005 at 1451 +0000, Christopher Snow appeared and said:
> > I''m looking for a distro that supports XEN on x64. Are there
any distros that
> > are production ready for this platform? I''ve just tried
openSuSE 10.0, but
> > found it to be buggy.
>
> I run Debian Sarge 3.1r1 on AMD64 with full 64-bit support. The system
> is a workstation, not a Xen system though. But it runs absolutely stable
> since June. I use it regularly at the office and did not encounter any
> problems.
>
> Best,
> Lynx.
>
> --
> "From the delicate strands,
> between minds we weave our mesh:
> a blanket to warm the soul."
> --- Lady Deirdre Skye (SMAC) ---
>
>
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Adam Carheden wrote:> 2) Don''t use a Genkernel initrd (which is acutally an initramfs), as > initramfs doesn''t seem to work with the Xen kernel.initrd does work though, and it''s a small patch to make genkernel generate initrd''s instead of initramfs''s :-). Some things do not work with genkernel and initrd''s though, I imagine because they''re being phased out and as such are not well tested.> This means your DOM0 root fs can''t be on LVM.EVMS works for me, but as mentioned I had to do a lot of initrd tweaking. Would have been nice if genkernel and Xen worked out of the box :-/.> 4) When they tell you to emerge gentoo-sources, instead do: > echo ''app-emulation/xen ~x86'' >> /etc/portage/package.keywords > echo ''sys-kernel/xen-sources ~x86'' >> /etc/portage/package.keywords > emerge xen xen-sourcesSeems odd to use ~x86 on an AMD64, shouldn''t that be ~amd64? I also had to modify package(s?).mask before it would let me emerge xen-sources, I think you currently have to do that. Quite annoying that there is no command line parameter that will override package.mask, grr. HTH _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users