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Re: [Xen-users] What are the advantages of running domU in a lvm logical

On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 10:14 -0400, Dan VerWeire wrote:
> 2) I haven't used virt-manager but I assume what you are experiencing
> is correct. Without some PV drivers installed into the Windows DomU,
> it doesn't receive the signals to shut down correctly. There are some
> GPL PV drivers being developed. Search this mailing list for details.
> They are being developed by James Harper.
> 

I can't really see needing to restart dom0 very often, but if you ever
have to, do you manually shut down the windows OSes?

> 3) I currently have 4 Windows 2000 Server domUs running in a server
> that has 8gigs of ram and dual Xeon quad cores running @ 1.86GHz. Two
> of these VMs are high transaction database servers. One is MSSQL and
> the other is Pervasive. Also running a terminal server and a web
> server. All of these VMs were migrated from physical servers and we
> are experiencing higher stability that we were before the
> consolidation.
> 

Very good information. Thanks!

James


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