Ty Stefano I assumed that because the hypervisor was 64bit, dom0 would be too... I had never checked! Many thanks for pointing that out. Martin On 17 November 2010 00:06, Stefano Baronio <stefano.baronio at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi MArtin, > ????? the XenServer Dom0 is 32bit whilst the hypervisor is 64 bit. > You need to know it when you install third part sw on the host. > http://forums.citrix.com/thread.jspa?threadID=269924&tstart=0 > > So I need the 32bit compiled version to be able to mount glusterfs directly > from the XenServer host. > > Cheers > Stefano > > > 2010/11/16 Deadpan110 <deadpan110 at gmail.com> >> >> My home testing environment I also use XenServer (again, Citrix - with >> a Centos minimalistic core OS) - even though the Dom0 is 64bit, in any >> Xen setup (maybe even for other virtuali[s\z]ation solutions), >> performance is better using 32bit VM's (DomU). >> >> My production environment comprises of Xen virtual machines (not >> XenServer, but still Xen), scattered around a remote datacenter. >> >> I too will be sharing my experiences as GlusterFS offers exactly what >> I need and would like to deploy. >> >> Martin >> >> >> >> On 16 November 2010 20:39, Stefano Baronio <stefano.baronio at gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > From my point of view, 64 bit on server side is easy to handle but the >> > client side can have different needs and limitations. >> > For example, we are using XenServer from Citrix, the Dom0 is taken from >> > a >> > CentOS 5 distro and it is 32bit. I cannot change that, because is a >> > Citrix >> > design choice and there might be lots of these situations around. >> > Sorry but I can't code any patches.. >> > Anyway, I will share what our experience will be with 32bit client. >> > >> > Cheers >> > Stefano >> > >> > >> > 2010/11/16 Bernard Li <bernard at vanhpc.org> >> > >> >> Hi Christian: >> >> >> >> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 1:34 AM, Christian Fischer >> >> <christian.fischer at easterngraphics.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> > No statement from the developers about usability of glusterfs client >> >> > on >> >> 32bit >> >> > systems. But this was probably discussed in earlier threads. >> >> >> >> I believe the official comment is that Gluster is not going to support >> >> 32-bit systems. ?However, it doesn't mean that the community cannot >> >> support it. ?If we find bugs and can code up patches, we should still >> >> file a bug and submit the patches and hopefully they will be checked >> >> into the official repository. >> >> >> >> Cheers, >> >> >> >> Bernard >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Gluster-users mailing list >> >> Gluster-users at gluster.org >> >> http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users >> >> >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Gluster-users mailing list >> > Gluster-users at gluster.org >> > http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users >> > >> > > >
