RE: [Xen-devel] Hopefully not too annoying: SMP guests question

["Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> could someone please give me a quick update on the status of 
> SMP guests?
> I'd like to know whether we are likely to get an SMP Dom0 
> machine working stably. What are the risks with going with 
> SMP guests at the moment? What branch should I download if I go ahead?

SMP guests are available in the unstable tree, and seem to work well.
We're about to enable CONFIG_SMP in our nightly builds.

You might want to wait until 3.0-testing gets forked, which is pretty
close. The number of missing features/bugs on the wiki is going down
nicely.

Ian

> The server we are going to run on is a dual 3GHz Xeon on a 
> Gigabyte GA-GILDR with Intel E7520 MCH, Intel ICH5R IO, and 
> 6700PXH PCI-X (which won't be used). System memory will be 
> 2GiB, storage will be two RAID-1 striped Seagate 15K U320 drives.
> 
> We aren't planning any exotic hardware support (just what's 
> on the board).
> 
> Your expert opinion will be much valued!
> 
> Regards,
> Paul Dorman
> 
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