Is there a distro considered the ''best'' dom0? Most stable?
Or is there any difference?
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Hi Alan, I have only used Xen with Debian so far, so my answer may not be what you are looking for. However, my understanding is that Dom0 is just a domain (VM) running on the hypervisor, it''s only defining point is that it can communicate with, and control, the Hypervisor. I could be wrong, but if Xen relies on the kernel to function, and the systems being compared use the same kernel, then "best" would be a matter of opinion. My experience with Debian has been that Wheezy is more pliable for customization and compiling, but Squeeze is more stable with supplied packages. Hope that helps, ~Casey On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Alan McKay <alan.mckay@gmail.com> wrote:> Is there a distro considered the ''best'' dom0? Most stable? > Or is there any difference? > > -- > “Don''t eat anything you''ve ever seen advertised on TV” > - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food" > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-users mailing list > Xen-users@lists.xen.org > http://lists.xen.org/xen-users >_______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-users
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Alan McKay <alan.mckay@gmail.com> wrote:> Is there a distro considered the ''best'' dom0? Most stable? > Or is there any difference? >This page provides a summary of your options: http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/XenDom0Kernels At a very high level it really depends on what you are trying to accomplish, what you are familiar with, etc. (asking more specific questions can allow people to cater their answers to your needs) In slide 14 here, I apply this type of question more specifically to XCP: http://www.slideshare.net/cloudstack/vbacd-xen-cloud-computing I would also recommend taking a look at the following page, which gives an overview of your toolstack choices and things to consider: http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Choice_of_Toolstacks Hope that helps. Thanks, Todd -- Todd Deshane http://www.linkedin.com/in/deshantm http://blog.xen.org/ http://wiki.xen.org/
On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:03:17 -0400, Alan McKay wrote:> Is there a distro considered the 'best' dom0? Most stable? > Or is there any difference?I have had a long time debian last stable as dom0 with stable xen pkgs and later with xen/kernel pkgs from unstable. IMHO the stable pkgs doesnt have all needed features (for me) and with unstable I has had some crashes :( (mostly after 2-3 weeks runtime). Now I have centos6 with ml kernels (3.3 at this time) and xen pkgs from 'Steves blog' on all hosts and its work really good... Till now I have found only one problem, pci passthrough doesnt work with pv-grub. but it is only my subjective opinion... -- Greetz PS: sorry for my english _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-users