Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-04-06 Thread micah anderson
> Novell is actively developing their SLES11 2.6.27 kernel-xen, > and upcoming SLES11 SP1 will have 2.6.32 kernel-xen. I did not know that. > > > vcpu pinning is not required for a properly working kernel.. > > > > It shouldn't be, I agree... but it seems like it is required to keep the > > ker

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-04-06 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 11:00:50AM -0400, micah anderson wrote: > On 2010-04-06, micah anderson wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 03:40:40PM -0400, Micah Anderson wrote: > > > "Nikita V. Youshchenko" writes: > > > > > > >> We have had to carry that patch without any upstream support (or > > > >

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-04-06 Thread micah anderson
On 2010-04-06, micah anderson wrote: > On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 03:40:40PM -0400, Micah Anderson wrote: > > "Nikita V. Youshchenko" writes: > > > > >> We have had to carry that patch without any upstream support (or sharing > > >> with Novell, which eventually released SLES 11 with 2.6.27). As a

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-04-06 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 03:40:40PM -0400, Micah Anderson wrote: > "Nikita V. Youshchenko" writes: > > >> We have had to carry that patch without any upstream support (or sharing > >> with Novell, which eventually released SLES 11 with 2.6.27). As a > >> result, the xen-flavour kernels for lenny

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-04-01 Thread Micah Anderson
"Nikita V. Youshchenko" writes: >> We have had to carry that patch without any upstream support (or sharing >> with Novell, which eventually released SLES 11 with 2.6.27). As a >> result, the xen-flavour kernels for lenny are very buggy, particularly >> for domains with multiple vCPUs (though th

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-24 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Ian Campbell writes: > On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 17:10 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Pasi Kärkkäinen writes: >> >> > On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 11:02:51AM +1100, Brian May wrote: >> >> On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 06:12:28PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: >> >> > If we're talking about Linux 2.6.32

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-24 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 17:10 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Pasi Kärkkäinen writes: > > > On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 11:02:51AM +1100, Brian May wrote: > >> On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 06:12:28PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > >> > If we're talking about Linux 2.6.32 support for pv_ops dom0 here,

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-20 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 06:16:27PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 05:10:55PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > Pasi Kärkkäinen writes: > > > > > On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 11:02:51AM +1100, Brian May wrote: > > >> On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 06:12:28PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäine

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-20 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 05:10:55PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Pasi Kärkkäinen writes: > > > On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 11:02:51AM +1100, Brian May wrote: > >> On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 06:12:28PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > >> > If we're talking about Linux 2.6.32 support for pv_ops dom0

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-20 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Pasi Kärkkäinen writes: > On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 11:02:51AM +1100, Brian May wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 06:12:28PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: >> > If we're talking about Linux 2.6.32 support for pv_ops dom0 here, then >> > that's >> > in progress, see: >> > >> > http://lists.xensourc

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-07 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 11:06:56AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 03 Jan 2010, William Pitcock wrote: > > > That was opposed quite strongly by the kernel folks last time it was > > > attempted. Were there any fundamental changes in the Xen dom0 patches > > > since then? > > >

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-07 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 03 Jan 2010, William Pitcock wrote: > > That was opposed quite strongly by the kernel folks last time it was > > attempted. Were there any fundamental changes in the Xen dom0 patches > > since then? > > Only by the kernel folks which believe all of the crap that the KVM > guys say about Xe

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-05 Thread Jon Dowland
I think you are addressing the wrong list. This is debian-devel, for discussion of Debian development. Your question is off-topic here. Please try one of the debian-user mailing lists instead. As a second point, you have replied to an unrelated message on debian-devel and referenced the unrelated

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-04 Thread Jaco Wiese
Good day list, Is anyone else having a problem with the latest squeeze update of gnome-panel? When booting up, the entire desktop shows, icons and everything, and you can work on it. But the panels take almost 5 minutes to come up... after that it's fine. Anyone else experiencing this? Regards

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-04 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> We have had to carry that patch without any upstream support (or sharing > with Novell, which eventually released SLES 11 with 2.6.27). As a > result, the xen-flavour kernels for lenny are very buggy, particularly > for domains with multiple vCPUs (though that *may* be fixed now). Unfortunately

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-04 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 09:42:53PM +0300, William Pitcock wrote: > > That was opposed quite strongly by the kernel folks last time it was > > attempted. Were there any fundamental changes in the Xen dom0 patches > > since then? > Only by the kernel folks which believe all of the crap that the KVM

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 11:02:51AM +1100, Brian May wrote: > On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 06:12:28PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > If we're talking about Linux 2.6.32 support for pv_ops dom0 here, then > > that's > > in progress, see: > > > > http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2009

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 10:38 +1100, Brian May wrote: > On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 09:49:24PM +0300, William Pitcock wrote: > > > Xen is unsupportable due to clueless upstream, who has been in a > > > constant FAIL state regarding support of current kernels for years. > > > > Do you have any proof for

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread Brian May
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 06:12:28PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > If we're talking about Linux 2.6.32 support for pv_ops dom0 here, then that's > in progress, see: > > http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2009-12/msg01127.html > > the 2.6.32 tree should be available shortly after J

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread Brian May
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 09:49:24PM +0300, William Pitcock wrote: > > Xen is unsupportable due to clueless upstream, who has been in a > > constant FAIL state regarding support of current kernels for years. > > Do you have any proof for this claim? xen.git seems pretty up to date to > me (2.6.31.6

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread Brian May
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 11:26:34AM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 04:55:27PM +1100, Brian May wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 01:21:55AM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > I believe we will have Xen hypervisor and Linux dom0 packages, but they > > > will not be supported to

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 12:47:54PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Brian May wrote: > > > 1) I believe Xen, with paravirtualization (that is without QEMU) is more > > secure > > then KVM (or Xen) with QEMU. > > I haven't heard this claim before, do you have any referen

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread William Pitcock
- "Gabor Gombas" wrote: > On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 06:31:20PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > > So the change has happened, lthough it took painfully long to get > the > > upstream Linux pv_ops framework in shape and all that.. and > obviously > > the pv_ops dom0 patches still need to get

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread William Pitcock
- "Marc Haber" wrote: > On Sun, 3 Jan 2010 16:55:27 +1100, Brian May > wrote: > >Like I said previously, I think dropping Xen support is a mistake > because KVM > >requires QEMU and QEMU seems to have a reputation of being insecure. > > Xen is unsupportable due to clueless upstream, who ha

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 07:33:07PM +0100, Gabor Gombas wrote: > On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 06:31:20PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > > So the change has happened, lthough it took painfully long to get the > > upstream Linux pv_ops framework in shape and all that.. and obviously > > the pv_ops dom0

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 06:31:20PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > So the change has happened, lthough it took painfully long to get the > upstream Linux pv_ops framework in shape and all that.. and obviously > the pv_ops dom0 patches still need to get merged upstream. That was opposed quite stro

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 11:23:28AM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 01:21:55AM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > I believe we will have Xen hypervisor and Linux dom0 packages, > > The hypervisor works well, but the Linux Dom0 packages are not available > yet, upstream is again f

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 10:46:38AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sun, 3 Jan 2010 16:55:27 +1100, Brian May > wrote: > >Like I said previously, I think dropping Xen support is a mistake because KVM > >requires QEMU and QEMU seems to have a reputation of being insecure. > > Xen is unsupportable due

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Brian May, le Sun 03 Jan 2010 16:48:06 +1100, a écrit : > On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 12:47:54PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Brian May wrote: > > > > > 1) I believe Xen, with paravirtualization (that is without QEMU) is more > > > secure > > > then KVM (or Xen) with Q

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread Romain Francoise
Brian May writes: > http://blog.orebokech.com/2007/05/xen-security-or-lack-thereof.html links to > http://taviso.decsystem.org/virtsec.pdf. > I don't know for certain this applies to KVM, however I would assume so. Only to a certain extent. Nowadays Linux guests in KVM use virtio for disk/netwo

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 04:55:27PM +1100, Brian May wrote: > On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 01:21:55AM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > I believe we will have Xen hypervisor and Linux dom0 packages, but they > > will not be supported to the degree that ordinary kernel packages are. > I can't see any Xen ke

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 01:21:55AM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > I believe we will have Xen hypervisor and Linux dom0 packages, The hypervisor works well, but the Linux Dom0 packages are not available yet, upstream is again fading behind. Bastian -- What kind of love is that? Not to be loved;

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 3 Jan 2010 16:55:27 +1100, Brian May wrote: >Like I said previously, I think dropping Xen support is a mistake because KVM >requires QEMU and QEMU seems to have a reputation of being insecure. Xen is unsupportable due to clueless upstream, who has been in a constant FAIL state regarding s

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread Russell Coker
On Sun, 3 Jan 2010, Ben Hutchings wrote: > It does require virtualisation extensions, but most x86 processors sold in > the last few years have them. My SE Linux Play Machine is currently running on a P3-800 system with 256M of RAM. I would like to continue running on that hardware until someon

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-02 Thread Brian May
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 01:21:55AM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > I believe we will have Xen hypervisor and Linux dom0 packages, but they > will not be supported to the degree that ordinary kernel packages are. I can't see any Xen kernel in Squeeze with support for Xen. Am I blind? I don't see the

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-02 Thread Brian May
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 12:47:54PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Brian May wrote: > > > 1) I believe Xen, with paravirtualization (that is without QEMU) is more > > secure > > then KVM (or Xen) with QEMU. > > I haven't heard this claim before, do you have any referen

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Brian May wrote: > 1) I believe Xen, with paravirtualization (that is without QEMU) is more > secure > then KVM (or Xen) with QEMU. I haven't heard this claim before, do you have any references to support this? -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise --

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 12:01:40PM +1100, Brian May wrote: >> 2) I believe KVM needs CPU support, and this is not yet available on all >> modern computers. > > It does require virtualisation extensions, but most x86 processors sold in > the la

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-02 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 12:01:40PM +1100, Brian May wrote: > Hello, > > I have heard rumours that Xen is not going to be supported on Squeeze in > favour > of KVM. True or False? I believe we will have Xen hypervisor and Linux dom0 packages, but they will not be supported to the degree that ordi

Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-02 Thread Brian May
Hello, I have heard rumours that Xen is not going to be supported on Squeeze in favour of KVM. True or False? The reason I am concerned is: 1) I believe Xen, with paravirtualization (that is without QEMU) is more secure then KVM (or Xen) with QEMU. 2) I believe KVM needs CPU support, and this i