Xen for both 32 and 64 bit systems.

2012-02-19 Thread Steven Haigh
Hi all, For a while now I've been packaging kernels and Xen packages for EL6 - however they've all been 64 bit only. Recently, I've compiled them for i686 (32 bit) machines and would love to get some feedback of anyone who runs Xen on a 32 bit setup (can be 64 bit machine with 32 bit softwar

Re: Xen for both 32 and 64 bit systems.

2012-02-19 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 6:26 AM, Steven Haigh wrote: > Hi all, > > For a while now I've been packaging kernels and Xen packages for EL6 - > however they've all been 64 bit only. > You've my empathy. I did this years ago for our favorite upstream vendor's version 4 releases while working for the

Re: Xen for both 32 and 64 bit systems.

2012-02-19 Thread Steven Haigh
On 19/02/2012 11:50 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: You've my empathy. I did this years ago for our favorite upstream vendor's version 4 releases while working for the BBC on a virtualization project. Given our favorite upstream vendor's insistence on support for KVM, though, are you seeing any part

Re: Xen for both 32 and 64 bit systems.

2012-02-19 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 8:22 AM, Steven Haigh wrote: > > I didn't agree with TUV in dropping Xen - however I'm pretty sure it will > return in EL7. > I'm not sure about this. There are things I dislike intensely about KVM, specifically the lack of network configuration tools for setting up the req

Re: Xen for both 32 and 64 bit systems.

2012-02-19 Thread Steven Haigh
On 20/02/2012 1:14 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 8:22 AM, Steven Haigh mailto:net...@crc.id.au>> wrote: I didn't agree with TUV in dropping Xen - however I'm pretty sure it will return in EL7. I'm not sure about this. There are things I dislike intensely about KVM

Re: Xen for both 32 and 64 bit systems.

2012-02-20 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
Regarding the Xen for SL 6: I note that the xen-4.1.2-8.fc17.src.rpm from the bleeding edge Fedora 17 test repository seems to compile well using "mock" for Scientific Linux 6: I don't have a good host to test it on, but backporting those might be a good way to provide access to this. Building cus

Re: Xen for both 32 and 64 bit systems.

2012-02-20 Thread Steven Haigh
I use Michael Young's packages for Xen based on Fedora 16. Anything newer than that starts to cause issues in building due to newer dependencies. I then rebuild these for EL6. At least when I tried it not long ago as an experiment. Eventually, when FC16 becomes unmaintained, I shall either mai