On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 09:35:51AM -0700, Dale Bewley 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. We feel the pain too. We'd love to be able to offer a virtualization host which didn't require hardware virt support, but its just not viable until Dom0 is ported to pv_ops. The best bet if you want something to use in a production scenario is to use RHEL-5 or CentOS-5, since these have a much longer lifetime than Fedora for updates & hardware enablement (Fedora 8 will go end-of-life shortly after f10 comes out). Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen
