Re: So what's the deal with Xen?

2009-05-20 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 09:39:13AM -0400, Mark Haney wrote: > What's this I keep reading about Xen not being part of F10? I need xen > for some virtual machines I'm moving over to a F10 box temporarily and I > can't get yum to find the xen kernel anywhere. > > What am I missing here? > Xen hype

Re: So what's the deal with Xen? [a bit OT]

2009-05-20 Thread Peter Boy
Am Dienstag, den 19.05.2009, 15:54 +0200 schrieb Johan Swensson: > Xen is/will be replaced by KVM if I have understood things correctly. Sorry to jump in: We decided for Xen, because at least at the time of our decision making (but maybe it's outdated now), KVM suffered from performance issues (co

Re: So what's the deal with Xen?

2009-05-19 Thread Kevin Kofler
Mark Haney wrote: > What's this I keep reading about Xen not being part of F10? I need xen > for some virtual machines I'm moving over to a F10 box temporarily and I > can't get yum to find the xen kernel anywhere. > > What am I missing here? You can get experimental Fedora Dom0 kernels at: http

Re: So what's the deal with Xen?

2009-05-19 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 19 May 2009 12:38:06 -0500 dingleberry wrote: > > I used debian and built xen from the xen source repo. > > I found that a distro based on a 2.6.18 kernel worked much better > > than any of the "supported" versions of xen in fedora, > > opensuse, etc. where xen patches had been wedged into

Re: So what's the deal with Xen?

2009-05-19 Thread dingleberry
Tom Horsley wrote: On Tue, 19 May 2009 18:30:24 +0300 Veli-Pekka Kestilä wrote: Until then it's either F8 or CentOS. I used debian and built xen from the xen source repo. I found that a distro based on a 2.6.18 kernel worked much better than any of the "supported" versions of xen in f

Re: So what's the deal with Xen?

2009-05-19 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 19 May 2009 18:30:24 +0300 Veli-Pekka Kestilä wrote: > Until then it's either F8 or > CentOS. I used debian and built xen from the xen source repo. I found that a distro based on a 2.6.18 kernel worked much better than any of the "supported" versions of xen in fedora, opensuse, etc. wher

Re: So what's the deal with Xen?

2009-05-19 Thread Veli-Pekka Kestilä
Mark Haney wrote: Taylor, Tim wrote: You might want to take a look at xenner. This is a utility that can run a Xen DomU vm on the KVM hypervisor. - Tim Again, I'm still screwed. It doesn't matter if there is an emulator for Xen on KVM if you

Re: So what's the deal with Xen?

2009-05-19 Thread Mark Haney
Taylor, Tim wrote: > You might want to take a look at xenner. This is a utility that can run a > Xen DomU vm on the KVM hypervisor. > > - Tim > Again, I'm still screwed. It doesn't matter if there is an emulator for Xen on KVM if you don't have hardware

RE: So what's the deal with Xen?

2009-05-19 Thread Taylor, Tim
19, 2009 10:12 AM To: Community assistance, encouragement,and advice for using Fedora. Subject: Re: So what's the deal with Xen? Johan Swensson wrote: > Xen is/will be replaced by KVM if I have understood things correctly. > Bloody hell. Seriously? Well, I'm thoroug

Re: So what's the deal with Xen?

2009-05-19 Thread Mark Haney
Johan Swensson wrote: > Xen is/will be replaced by KVM if I have understood things correctly. > Bloody hell. Seriously? Well, I'm thoroughly screwed then. -- Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum Mark Haney Sr. Systems Administrator ERC Broadband (828) 350-2415 -- f

Re: So what's the deal with Xen?

2009-05-19 Thread Johan Swensson
/ Rome / Stockholm / Vienna Subject: So what's the deal with Xen? What's this I keep reading about Xen not being part of F10? I need xen for some virtual machines I'm moving over to a F10 box temporarily and I can't get yum to find the xen kernel anywhere. What am I missing he

So what's the deal with Xen?

2009-05-19 Thread Mark Haney
What's this I keep reading about Xen not being part of F10? I need xen for some virtual machines I'm moving over to a F10 box temporarily and I can't get yum to find the xen kernel anywhere. What am I missing here? -- Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum Mark Haney Sr.