Xen users - Sep 2006 - Motherboard suggestions for Core 2 Duo running Xen

We purchased a box with a Core 2 Duo (E6400) for the purpose of running 
Windows Server 2003 on Xen. The motherboard that came in the box was an 
Intel DG965RY, using the G965 chipset. We chose Suse 10.1 (we used 
x86_64) as the host operating system primarily because it was the only 
distro that would install. We have determined that the PATA controller 
and the network adapter on the motherboard are not currently Linux 
compatible (initially solved by using a Broadcom network adapter and a 
USB CD-ROM drive). We then figured out that Suse chose the "VESA 
Framebuffer Graphics" driver for the video adapter, which does not work 
under the Xen kernel. Does anybody have a suggestion of a motherboard or 
chipset that is compatible with the Xen kernel that will accept the 
E6400 CPU?
Thanks.
Michael

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Hello

Any progress with Intel DG965GRY?

So what is the actual status under XEN?
Which version do you use: 3.0.2 or 3.0.3?
HVM working?
SATA working at full speed?
Especially I am interested if the Intel gigabit NIC (82566DC) is working
under xen.

I just found on the internet following success story of Core 2 Duo and XEN:


------------------ from opensuse mailinglist
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Asus P5LD2-VM

http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?l1=3&l2=11&l3=194&model=536&modelmenu=1

I just bought this motherboard earlier this week and everything worked out
of
the box on openSUSE 10.2 alpha4:

- i945 graphics, with 3d support (xgl works, too)
- SATA
- PATA (There are two different PATA controllers. They both work)
- Gigabit LAN (e1000!)
- Sound works for the most part, but there were a couple of glitches. I
haven''t had time to delve into this, so I''m not sure exactly
what the
problem
is yet


Xen works great, too. You have to enable "Virtualization Technology"
in the
BIOS before you can create HVM domains, though.

-- 
James Oakley
jfunk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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I am just considering buing new devel machine based on Core 2 Duo e6600 and
dont know which
motherboard should I buy. Any recommendations or success stories?

Your help will be greatly apreciated.

Peter Braun



2006/9/15, Michael Crider < mcrider@hoecoop.org>:
>
> We purchased a box with a Core 2 Duo (E6400) for the purpose of running
> Windows Server 2003 on Xen. The motherboard that came in the box was an
> Intel DG965RY, using the G965 chipset. We chose Suse 10.1 (we used
> x86_64) as the host operating system primarily because it was the only
> distro that would install. We have determined that the PATA controller
> and the network adapter on the motherboard are not currently Linux
> compatible (initially solved by using a Broadcom network adapter and a
> USB CD-ROM drive). We then figured out that Suse chose the "VESA
> Framebuffer Graphics" driver for the video adapter, which does not
work
> under the Xen kernel. Does anybody have a suggestion of a motherboard or
> chipset that is compatible with the Xen kernel that will accept the
> E6400 CPU?
> Thanks.
> Michael
>
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On Friday 15 September 2006 14:57, Michael Crider wrote:
> We purchased a box with a Core 2 Duo (E6400) for the purpose of running
> Windows Server 2003 on Xen. The motherboard that came in the box was an
> Intel DG965RY, using the G965 chipset. We chose Suse 10.1 (we used
> x86_64) as the host operating system primarily because it was the only
> distro that would install. We have determined that the PATA controller
> and the network adapter on the motherboard are not currently Linux
> compatible (initially solved by using a Broadcom network adapter and a
> USB CD-ROM drive). We then figured out that Suse chose the "VESA
> Framebuffer Graphics" driver for the video adapter, which does not
work
> under the Xen kernel. Does anybody have a suggestion of a motherboard or
> chipset that is compatible with the Xen kernel that will accept the
> E6400 CPU?
> Thanks.
> Michael
>
> _______________________________________________
> Xen-users mailing list
> Xen-users@lists.xensource.com
> http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Hi, 

 I''ve playing around with an Gigabyte GA-965P-DS4, and it is currently
working
nice. I''m using Debian sarge/ xen 3.0.3. The processor was an E6400 and
the
system have 2Gb ram.

 I had problems with system stability, but i''ve solved it by testing
bios
settings and by replacing the onboard network adapter. It seemed to messup 
somewhat with the xen hipervisor, at leat the one from xen 3.0.2-2.

 I''ve not tested hvm, as I currently only run debian sarge based
domU''s.

 One thing to note, I was not able to install debian directly on the machine, 
so i''ve installed using another machine, the moved the harddisk.

Regards,
Hugo

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