On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 09:01:49AM -0400, Jason Dixon wrote: > We recently picked up a new SGI Altix 350 (2 bricks, 4 cpus, 4GB) for > "playing around", although it will hopefully become a part of our > corporate development environment. It came installed with SuSE 9 > SLES (which I'm not very fond of) and some Red Hat Enterprise for > Itanium CDs, which I'd like to install in it. I'd like to do some > sort of virtualization, a la Xen, to allocate virtual systems to > various developers, but I'm not finding much that will run on the > Altix 350 in 32-bit mode with SMP, much less ia64. > > Has anyone run Xen on *any* flavor of Linux running on Altix (in > particular, Red Hat/Fedora-based)? Any suggestions or ideas? I went to a couple of Xen presentations at the Red Hat Summit in early June. The comment there was that x86 32bit was mostly working now but that x86_64, ia64, amc ppc64 were "still in flux". Rik van Riel also said that Xen 3.0 was "not stable yet but in Fedora Core 4". He expected 1-2 months for a feature freeze and 3-4 months before it got stable. Intel has 30 developers working on Xen according to the Intel keynote. I don't know if VMware supports the ia64 yet - from a quick look at their web site, they didn't in VMware 4 but they're not really saying if it's supported in VMware 5. There is a mailing list for Xen discussions - you could try there. http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/virtualization/ -- Ed Wilts, RHCE Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
