Hi All, Can anybody tell me, if, to create a VM, I need to create one(ore more) partition on purpose? and how big should it be? Some more hints about that? Thanks Ale _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
________________________________ From: xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com [mailto:xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com] On Behalf Of Alessandro Miceli Sent: 16 October 2006 13:28 To: xen-users@lists.xensource.com Subject: [Xen-users] partitions for VMs Hi All, Can anybody tell me, if, to create a VM, I need to create one(ore more) partition on purpose? and how big should it be? You don''t have to have a separate partition for your DomU - it can be a file within a file-system. There are various ways to make this work as an expandable file-system (LVM for example) - but I''m not an expert on that, so if you need more help there, have a look at what''s been posted before and if that doesn''t answer your question, you can perhaps post another question here. As for how big it should be (obviously, even if you can expand it, you don''t want to expand it very often), that''s a much more difficult question... It depends on what you''re trying to achieve... It''s the same question as when you''re buying a hard-disk or memories for your machine: How much do you need? [Ok, hard-disks nowadays are almost always larger than what you need for many applications - but that''s a different story]. -- Mats Some more hints about that? Thanks Ale _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
El lunes 16 de octubre del 2006 a las 14:28:29, Alessandro Miceli escribió:> Hi All,Hi Alessandro.> Can anybody tell me, if, to create a VM, I need to create one(ore > more) partition on purpose?You need two, at least, for each operating system: the root and the swap filesystem.> Some more hints about that?http://www.option-c.com/xwiki/Logical_Volume_Management Regards, Daniel -- Daniel Bareiro - System Administrator Fingerprint: BFB3 08D6 B4D1 31B2 72B9 29CE 6696 BF1B 14E6 1D37 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Etch - Linux user #188.598 _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 11:37:26AM -0300, Daniel Bareiro wrote:> > Can anybody tell me, if, to create a VM, I need to create one(ore > > more) partition on purpose? > > You need two, at least, for each operating system: the root and the swap > filesystem.Give it enough memory and you don''t *need* a swap partition, its just what most people use. You could also use a swapfile on the disk image.. Steve -- # Xen Tools. Debian-friendly. http://www.xen-tools.org/ _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Here are my experiences with the above laptop. It is not at all suited for Linux and ASUS does not support Linux at all. (And I am in Taiwan, the home of ASUS) My whole purpose of a new laptop was for the dual core processor with hyipervisor (Pacifica) capabilities for running WinXP under Linux. Machine is AMD Turion X64_86 X2 dual core with Nvidia 7300 video card, C51MV Nvidia chipset and 1280X800 15.4 inch LCD display. Very nice and speedy machine in Windows and Linux without Xen. After that, it stinks, even with Windows if you add another GByte of memore. Here the the problems I experience with 2 GByte ram. In both Suse 10.1 non Xen kernel and in WindowsXP, the USB mouse and keyboard will intermittently freeze, and the only way out is the master reset (Power Switch). Removing the extra 1 GByte ram seems to cure this. I tried both the 533 MHz version and 667 MHz ram dimms. 667 version seem to help quite a bit. When booting into the Xen kernel, I get the following errors. <4>0000:00:0b.0 OHCI: BIOS handoff failed (BIOS bug ?) 000007b4 <4>0000:00:0b.1 EHCI: BIOS handoff failed (BIOS bug ?) 01010001 This goes along with the other keyboard mouse problem. Could not install WinXP. It gets to loading the drivers, and hangls the machine. You cannot use the NVIDIA video driver and go into XEN. Only the "nv" driver. I have a desktop with Nvidia 5700 video, and with works with a patch to the 8762 nvidia driver, but not the 8674. So, buyer beware of ASUS products for Linux and in some cases, for Windows. An alternative is the MSI laptops. Many of the distributors have customization and you can get Suse 10.2 or Red Hat preloaded as the operating system. This is what I will be getting next. I read on the internet several places about the problems with this ASUS machine, unfortunately after I purchased the machine. Even the problem with the 2 GByte memory was mentioned and that the BIOS is a mess. Art _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 06:47 +0200, Michael Kress wrote:> Art, > > Art Fore wrote: > > When booting into the Xen kernel, I get the following errors. > > > > <4>0000:00:0b.0 OHCI: BIOS handoff failed (BIOS bug ?) 000007b4 > > > > <4>0000:00:0b.1 EHCI: BIOS handoff failed (BIOS bug ?) 01010001 > > > try playing around with the usb-handoff kernel parameter. > Regards, MichaelGave up on this machine. Found out is has problems even with windows with 2 Gig ram, ASUS refuses to even discuss Linux, and apparently, the bios is a mess. Am selling it to my boss who will run it only with windows xp and 1 gig ram while I have orderd a Dell latitude with Core Duo 7600 from intel, 2 gig ram, and nvidia video. This systrm is supposed to work with Xen. Even though it was a credit card hassle here in Taiwan with Dell (Taiwan) I will be getting it next week. It seams all of the computer vendors will not ship to Taiwan from the use if ordered with a Credit Card from a US abank. They are affraid of credit card fraud. Art _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users