Xen users - Dec 2005 - RE: Using the -xen kernel rather than -xen0/U was Poorhard disk performance on xen-3/dom0

> On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 12:33:46PM -0800, David H wrote:
> > >users really should be using the -xen kernel rather than -xen0/U.
> > 
> > This is very good advice, and easy to follow.  If you are 
> building Xen 
> > for testing or production use the "xen" kenel.  It is much 
> more like 
> > the kenel in most distributions, everything compiled as a module.
> 
> I really hope this will not become enforced so much that it''s 
> the only way to do things as personally I detest initrds and 
> only use kernels compiled with exactly the drivers I want.
People will always have the option to configure their own kernels, but a
good proportion of the traffic on the list is down to people botching
their homebrew config.  Granted, we take a lot of the blame for not
hacking Kconfig to grey out options that we know don''t work [NB: the
''subarch xen'' tree is already much better in this respect],
but I wish
people would say that they''d modified the config when reporting
problems.

I''m not a big fan of initrd''s, but if you use the RPMs then
this is
mostly handled for you. For most users, -xen kernels are the way to go.

Ian

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