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xen-users
Re: [Xen-users] Xen and linux-vserver on a PPC G5
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 01:36:22PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 12:20:10PM +0100, Christophe KINNE wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've a server, running on i686, with linux-vserver enabled which runs
> > severals
> > vservers. I need to configure a spare server for it but the only hardware
> > available at this time in the stock is a PPC G5.
> >
> > Will it work if I use Xen to virtualise a backup of this server ? I suppose
> > it
> > will... but i've no certitude so if someone has already tried or if someone
> > knows any limitation that will prevent this configuration to work i'll
> > appreciate your feedback.
> >
>
> Xen currently doesn't support PPC.
>
> There's some early version of Xen for PPC available,
> but I don't know how well that works.
>
> There was a thread about that recently on xen-devel mailinglist,
> so you could search the mailinglist archives for that.
>
The thread is here:
"[Xen-devel] XEN Support for IBM JS20 PowerPC":
http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2009-12/msg00769.html
Keir comments about Xen PPC support here:
http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2009-12/msg00774.html
"The last stable branch to include a PowerPC port was Xen 3.2, so you'd have
to go back that far."
The Xen ARM project seems to be based on the PPC port:
http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2009-03/msg01797.html
-- Pasi
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