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Re: [Xen-users] Xen and linux-vserver on a PPC G5

To: Christophe KINNE <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Xen and linux-vserver on a PPC G5
From: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:01:14 +0200
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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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