Re: [Xen-users] OES2

Bart Coninckx
Fri, 06 Aug 2010 19:06:03 -0000

On Friday 06 August 2010 20:33:04 Nick Couchman wrote:
> > Well both really. For starters my Hypervisors are SLES10SP3 but
won''t
> > virtualize SLES10SP3 in HVM mode. I get I/O problems and hence kernel
> > panics.
> > No problems with SLES10SP2.
> >
> > And as far as OES2 is concerned: this is a different animal though
than
> > SLES10, esepecially since I also us Novell Clustering Services,
requiring
> > special kernel modules etc. The afore mentionned problems could
inspire
> > me to
> > go the PVM road (which would benefit performance as well of course),
but
> > not
> >
> > sure if everything will keep on working (I''m looking to P2V
an existing
> > OES2
> >
> > cluster).
> >
> > thx,
> >
> > B.
>
> You definitely should go the paravirtualized route in OES2.  I
don''t know
>  of any services that require OES2 to run in HVM mode - in fact,
I''m sure
>  Novell has designed it specifically to operate in PV mode.
>
> -Nick
>
>

OK, I''ve read about some nasty things regarding NSS on PVM but that was
with
local drives. Since we use iSCSI that might be less of an issue. I''ll
just
fire up a PVM guest, rsync everything to it while the services are dead and
we''ll see what happens.


cheers,