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Re: Getting started with Xen -- Xen enabled kernel for Lenny?



Rick Thomas wrote:

> I sincerely hope that the lack of Xen support in Lenny is a temporary
> thing that will be fixed before the first Beta release.  Does anybody
> know what's the problem?

The problem is that xen is quite behind with kernels, afaik it's a HUGE
patch to apply and the most recent version is 18 (or 20 or something, it's
been some time) and I gave up following that since the only sane options to
get a stable xen host where:

a) use distro packages from a stable tree
b) use the download from xensource (which I dislike because it pollutes the
machine)

If I could decide again I'd probably go with VMWare or kvm or vserver which
I heard are include in the kernel mainline (well the latter 2 iirc), but
xen seems to choose the commercial way and just adds patches based on their
business plan. I don't hink it will be included in the mainline kernel any
time soon. (Yes bash me, but that is just my personal experience)

I may be wrong on vserver, but i read a bit about the kvm stuff and forgot
about it since we have no way to switch away from xen due to lack of
resources.

/martin

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