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Re: [Xen-users] Xen dom0 on debian, what is the most recent but stable

To: Fantu <fantonifabio@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Xen dom0 on debian, what is the most recent but stable solution?
From: Tapas Mishra <mightydreams@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 19:15:28 +0530
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Hi,my post will not directly answer your problem.
Try to use virsh-manager.
It is a nice GUI with which you will be able to do Virtualization even
on a server which does not have a GUI running on it.
If you consider using it post here I will reply.
Which Distribution you are using.

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Fantu <fantonifabio@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the good reply, yesterday on dell t610 i try xen 4.0.1-rc1 with
> kernel 2.6.32.13 pv_ops last build (last commit
> f6fe6583b77a49b569eef1b66c3d761eec2e561b) with this config:
> http://old.nabble.com/file/p28668520/config-2.6.32.13 config-2.6.32.13
> Boot very long and system useless
> Today i have move the same disk to other system not dell, the only problems
> see with not dom0_mem=...M and balloning of dom0 is low performance if after
> start of some domU dom0 ram go to 1.4gb approximately and freeze of dom0
> (calltrace of out of memory, i can't log to this system without SOL) when go
> to 900mb approximately with open of another domU
> But now with dom0_mem=2048M and dom0 balloning set to no is all ok and good
> performance
> Can you recommend me good config for do this system working also on dell
> server?
> Thanks for any reply
>
> Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 11:50:23AM -0400, Mike Viau wrote:
>>>    > On Mon, 24 May 2010 15:13:00 +0300 <pasik@xxxxxx> wrote:
>>>    >
>>>    > Remember Linux 2.6.32 pvops dom0 kernels require at least Xen 4.0 to
>>>    work properly.
>>>    > Upcoming Xen 3.4.3 will (partly) support pvops dom0 kernels aswell..
>>>    >
>>>
>>>    Pasi, I thought that the xen 3.4.3 xen hypervisor was supposed to work
>>> on
>>>    pvops kernels. I had a 2.6.32 pvops kernel working, altough some users
>>>    reported problems on the list with this combination. I also believe
>>> 2.6.31
>>>    pvops was tested to work as well. Personally 2.6.33 pvops is untested.
>>>
>>
>> 2.6.31 pvops dom0 doesn't require the new IOAPIC related hypercalls.
>>
>> 2.6.32 and newer pvops dom0 kernels require the new IOAPIC hypercalls from
>> Xen.
>> Xen 4.0.0 was the first one to introduce that hypercall.
>>
>> Some of the patches related to it are backported to Xen 3.4.3, but not
>> all.
>>
>> Based on the various discussion on xen-devel it seems Xen 3.4.3 + 2.6.32
>> pvops dom0
>> works for some, and doesn't for others.
>>
>> It's recommended to use Xen 4.0.0 + 2.6.32 pvops dom0, since that's the
>> supported
>> and recommended configuration.
>>
>> -- Pasi
>>
>>>    -M
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