Re: [Xen-users] any opinions on debian vs. opensuse for Xen?

[Sam <xen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/17/2010 02:59 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> Sam,
>
> Thanks for the details! And...
>
> Sam wrote:
> > I am running on a dual 1.6ghz cpu intel atom motherboard so of course
> > this is less than ideal. The atom cpu, even though 2 core, has hyper
> > threading which makes dom0 think it has 4 cpus so you have to do some
> > testing to figure out which cpu's are actually on a separate core.
> > dom0 by default has access to all cores. I only have 2 domU's. One has:
> I'm not sure if my system has hyperthreading or not - I guess I'm going
> to have to figure that out first.
>
> Do you know if there's a way to pin dom0 to a specific core - I think
> I'm seeing kernel panics caused by dom0 (SMP errors that show up every
> once in a while). I'm running a high-availability configuration running
> Xen over DRBD over software RAID10 - and I expect panics occur when all
> the bits line up just right before swapping into/out of dom0 - but I
> don't have the instrumentation to drill down that far.
> > I would also go with debian squeeze unless you are having trouble with
> > the debian installer. I normally use the net install disk
> > http://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst and then use aptitude to install
> > the rest of my packages. I don't ever use the preset tasks to install
> > any thing.
> I think I might just try going to Squeeze. As I read the bug reports,
> the ones that seem to reference the kernal panics I'm seeing are shown
> as closed in Squeeze.
>
> Are you running Xen 3 or 4?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Miles
Running 3.2. You can pin with the cpu settings (dom0-cpus) in 
xend-config.sxp
Sam

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