On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Dale Bewley <dlbewley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 14:24 -0400, Paul Wouters wrote: >> Is there a doc somewhere to say how to migrate from Xen boots using rootfs >> (not bootable disk image) to kvm? > > There are some of us with some fairly substantial servers bought just a > few years ago that don't have hardware virtualization support. I believe > KVM still requires such support, and I don't know if that's ever going > to change. > > So, until there is a new dom0 in Fedora there will be us poor souls > living back on F8 with little budget to swap out and buy HVM capable > hardware. As long as future fedora domU's continue to work on F8 dom0, I > suppose we can float along for a couple of releases until something > changes. > > It's a little worrisome that patches won't be forthcoming for F8, but we > can mitigate that somewhat by running little more than the hypervisor on > the dom0. > > Keep up the great work and forward momentum, but have pity on those of > us using Fedora in production with the above limitations. > I think that in those cases for long term support you will want to Look at running RHEL/CentOS-5 for the Dom0. This should allow you to have the DomU's to be newer versions and keep the non-HVM hardware useful. > -- > Fedora-xen mailing list > Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen > -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen
