Re: Xen question
Anders Breindahl schreef:
> On 200805291708, Stephen Gran wrote:
>> This one time, at band camp, Paul van der Vlis said:
>>> I have some questions about Xen:
>>>
>>> - I have installed an AMD64 Xen machine with Etch. In unstable I don't
>>> see Xen-AMD64 kernels anymore. Is there a change that Xen-AMD64 support
>>> will be dropped?
>> Kernels > 2.6.18 do not support Xen dom0 on any architecture, as far as
>> I'm aware.
>
> I second that. There's a Redhat effort to make a dom0-able kernel. So
> far there's (has been?) a .20-series domU-kernel in unstable for i386.
>
> In fact, the situation is so grave that people are considering
> contingency plans. It could seem that Xen is dying slowly -- I'm not
> saying it is, but I'm saying it seems to be.
>
> For further such issues, the pkg-xen-devel list on alioth should be
> visited.
>
>>> - I see that my amd64-guest has only one CPU, but it is a multicore
>>> machine. Will I use only one core?
>> It depends on how many CPUs you export to the guest. See your config
>> file for how many you export.
>
> It's the vcpus = n directive you're lacking. In that fashion, more than
> a single raw-steel processor will be used on the domU at a time. (Though
> if you have multiple domU's, there's a natural evening of workload, even
> though they each have only one CPU accessible.)
I am not sure what I did wrong before, but now it works with the vcpus
directive. Great!
With regards,
Paul van der Vlis.
--
http://www.vandervlis.nl/
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