I've read some more... The kernel file server jobs can't run in a zone, so that's out unless I want to use userland NFS/CIFS/iSCSI. I'd like to use the kernel bits as they seem well supported. So I guess I'm running those in dom0. I haven't found a good way around this. I figure it's probably not a common use case for Xen. Other than a possible security breach in dom0 granting access to the VMs, is there any reason to really worry about it for my purposes?
It looks like all the guest OSes will need to access storage over NFS/CIFS. It's not ideal, but I think I'm getting a little premature optimization by worrying over performance right now. The data will have to traverse the IP stack, but it's all local, no actual wire traffic, so it should be reasonably good performance wise. I'll probably try to have the main OS files live in zvols. As for Linux, some distros are better than others when it comes to PV support. Ubuntu is what I'm using now and it looks like they are right out unless I want to install in hvm mode and build a kernel for PV support. Not a huge deal, so I might still do that. Unsure at this point. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ xen-discuss mailing list [email protected]
