Comments on: links for 2008-02-10 http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2008/02/09/links-for-2008-02-10/ because technology is just another ecosystem Sun, 13 May 2012 00:23:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: James http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2008/02/09/links-for-2008-02-10/comment-page-1/#comment-306201 James Sun, 10 Feb 2008 06:18:03 +0000 http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2008/02/09/links-for-2008-02-10/#comment-306201 My limited experience of Xen on gutsy is that it's prone to random reboots. This might be a hardware issue, but could also be due to XenSource not having patches for anything past 2.6.18, and forward-porting is a pain - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/XenPvops and http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2007-November/msg00106.html So KVM being upstream means Ubuntu have to do a whole lot less work, have a more stable system and not kill any kittens. The Fedora pvops work isn't going to be ready by April so that's not an option, and XenSource don't seem as interested in Linux since being bought by Citrix. I do run Xen quite successfully on Etch, but that's a 2.6.18 kernel, and the hardware that was running gutsy was too new for 2.6.18. The OpenSolaris xVM port of Xen is still too early to use as a dom0, it has limitations like "Don't use more than half your physical RAM for domUs." My limited experience of Xen on gutsy is that it’s prone to random reboots. This might be a hardware issue, but could also be due to XenSource not having patches for anything past 2.6.18, and forward-porting is a pain – http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/XenPvops and http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2007-November/msg00106.html

So KVM being upstream means Ubuntu have to do a whole lot less work, have a more stable system and not kill any kittens. The Fedora pvops work isn’t going to be ready by April so that’s not an option, and XenSource don’t seem as interested in Linux since being bought by Citrix. I do run Xen quite successfully on Etch, but that’s a 2.6.18 kernel, and the hardware that was running gutsy was too new for 2.6.18. The OpenSolaris xVM port of Xen is still too early to use as a dom0, it has limitations like “Don’t use more than half your physical RAM for domUs.”

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