Hi Jim, On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 14:27 -0800, Jim Pick wrote: > I wouldn't worry too much about the stability of the server just yet - > it has been fairly solid in the past. Most of the downtime in the past > month was due to the hardware problems on my other server, and the fact > I had to reconfigure everything. It's not too hard for me to reboot it > if things go bad. Nobody using the machine seems to be particularly > sensitive to a little downtime now and then. OK, it doesn't really look like there was any trouble on the machine before it went down. I restarted the autobuilder (and the irc cp-bot). We will see how it holds up. > Some weekend in the new year, I'd like to upgrade the base OS on it so I > could get a newer version of Xen. Perhaps the latest version of Fedora? > I suspect that it's been pretty well tested... The Fedora virtualization story (xen, kvm, libvirt, virt-manager, qemu, etc.) is pretty sweet. But compared to a somewhat conservative Debian (stable) installation it can be a little intimidating with regard to keeping up with updates. At home I have been running CentOS 5[.1], which doesn't have kvm and some of the newer virt-manager stuff, but which has been super stable. And they are as conservative about updates as Debian stable. Combined with EPEL (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL) it is pretty nice for simple server installs that just have to do good Xen based virtualization. Cheers, Mark
