On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 01:40:55PM +0200, Veli-Pekka Kestilä wrote: > Jan ONDREJ (SAL) wrote: > >On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 12:04:34PM +0200, Neil Thompson wrote: > > > >>On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:51:07AM +0100, Jan ONDREJ (SAL) wrote: > >> > >>>On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:44:35AM +0200, Neil Thompson wrote: > >>> > >>>>On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 08:15:00AM +0000, Evan Lavelle wrote: > >>>>RHEL (and CentOS) 5.3 has support for Fedora 10 (and above) domUs, and > >>>>Fedora 11 > >>>>should have, as well. > >>>> > >>>Just there is at least one critical problem with Fedora 10 DomU and also > >>>one > >>>for Fedora 9 DomU, so Fedora 10 kernels can't run stable. :( > >>> > >>>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=478414 > >>> > >>> > >>Your problem is with an F8 Dom0... > >> > > > >Not exactly. On my F8 Dom0 Fedora 10 works well with latest fc8 domU > >kernel. > >Just when trying to boot and run .fc10. PAE or x86_64 kernel, it fails > >in less than 48 hours. > > > > > I would really recommend you to change the Dom0 to be CentOS 5.2 or > newer, Fedora 8 has been "Dead" about ½-month allready and will not get > any updates be it KVM, QEMU or Xen. So the bugs will not be fixed and > there will be no security updates for F8. I have some virtual > environments running still vith Xen and F7 or F8, but will migrate them > soon to CentOS for stability and long term support and I quite much > expect them to be still supported 5-years from now. > > Also I don't think kvm will be that different or hard to learn if it > becomes to that. It actually has paravirtual network drivers for windows > from Qumranet which you can get without extra fee so I think if you are > having windows clients it could be way to go in future. For xen you need > to pay to Novell for that priviledge. > You can always use "GPLPV" Windows drivers for Xen. They're open source. > So all in all I think for me this aquisition is good news. I think most > problems with xen comes from xensource as it's they only product > generating income and for that reason the opensource version seems to > get less care than the version you can buy from them. (This is just my > opinion so it's not necessarily so) > I think Xensource is putting a lot of effort into opensource Xen. It's just the dom0/pv_ops mess that's causing problems atm.. that _should_ get fixed in the near future. -- Pasi -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen
