Re: [Xen-users] OES2

Nick Couchman
Fri, 06 Aug 2010 18:33:04 -0000

>
> 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



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