On Mon, 14 Mar 2011, Tim Gardner wrote: > Xen components are built as modules in the -server flavour, whereas they > are built into the -virtual flavour. Can this be solved with some > initramfs magic? > > Incidentally, that is the _only_ substantive difference between -server > and -virtual (packaging differences notwithstanding).
there is at least 1 patch I'm aware of that would not be able to be carried in -server. I believe the -virtual kernel sets the max memory to 70G or some such number. That obviously would not be suitable for -server, but is required to run successfully in EC2's t1.micro instances. Stefan can surely elaborate on that. I suspect that this is what Loic hit when his -server kernels failed to boot on EC2. The main issue here is that as soon as we split off -virtual from sub-flavour to flavour, it diverged. There is value in that divergence (we can boot on all Ec2 instance types), but it also is a pain. The smaller size of -virtual is very desirable. $ apt-cache show linux-image-2.6.38-6-virtual | grep ^Installed-Size Installed-Size: 32644 $ apt-cache show linux-image-2.6.38-6-server | grep ^Installed-Size Installed-Size: 143520 Our UEC images occupy ~ 600M of disk space installed, so that 110M is substantial. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/732046 Title: Missing filesystem modules in -virtual package -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
