Thanks for the clarification. My bad :) Also, if it was a minimal xen kernel and I had the DomU's running, I should be able to use save/restore on the DomUs (where I would be doing 90%+ of my typical work) to simulate suspending. On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:01:22 +0000, "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> said: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 07:58:55AM -0800, Mathew Brown wrote: > > > > On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:33:13 +0000, "Richard W.M. Jones" > > <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> said: > > > Mathew Brown wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I was considering installing a minimal Fedora 8 setup with the Xen > > > > kernel and then performing most of my work in several different DomUs > > > > (perhaps Fedora of Ubuntu) as well as running Windows in a VMware > > > > setup (don't currently have hardware virtualization support). Note > > > > that this is on a laptop. Are there any specific issues that I should > > > > be aware of (such as suspend/resume issues, etc.) and does anyone have > > > > any specific recommendations? Thank you for your help. > > > > > > Xen and laptops aren't really friends with each other. In particular > > > power management doesn't work so the laptop will run hot and eat > > > batteries, suspend/resume are unlikely to work, and so on. > > > > I remember on the Xen mailing list that they wanted to encourage people > > to start using Xen on laptops to help troubleshoot power management > > related issues. > > There's no troubleshooting to be done. It is quite simply not > implemented. > There is no suspend/hibernate support. CPU scaling is useless because > Dom0 can't neccessarily see all physical CPUs, and has no info about the > activity of the guest. > > The split Dom0/HV architecture is a loosing battle for ths kind of stuff > which is why we recoomend KVM as the only viable solution for laptops. > > Dan. > -- > |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 > -=| > |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ > -=| > |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ > -=| > |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 > -=| -- Mathew Brown mathewbrown@xxxxxxxxxxx -- http://www.fastmail.fm - A fast, anti-spam email service. -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen
