Re: Getting started with Xen -- Xen enabled kernel for Lenny?
Well, that's too bad.
Is this in any way related to the error messages I got when I tried
to do
aptitude update && aptitude dist-upgrade
on my Xen/Etch test machine?
I'm particularly concerned about "libc6-xen" being marked broken.
For what it's worth, my other Etch machines navigated the kernel
upgrade without incident. It's just the Xen machine that has a problem.
Any suggestions?
Rick
Error messages follow...
The following packages are BROKEN:
libc6-xen
The following NEW packages will be automatically installed:
libc6-i686 linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 linux-image-2.6.18-6-xen-686
linux-modules-2.6.18-6-xen-686
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libc6-i686 linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 linux-image-2.6.18-6-xen-686
linux-modules-2.6.18-6-xen-686
The following packages will be upgraded:
linux-doc-2.6.18 linux-image-2.6-686 linux-image-2.6-xen-686
3 packages upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not
upgraded.
Need to get 35.5MB/36.6MB of archives. After unpacking 101MB will
be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libc6-xen: Conflicts: libc6-i686 but 2.3.6.ds1-13etch4 is to be
installed.
Resolving dependencies...
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
Keep the following packages at their current version:
libc6-i686 [Not Installed]
linux-image-2.6-686 [2.6.18+6etch2 (stable, stable, now)]
linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 [Not Installed]
Score is 20
On Jan 30, 2008, at 12:03 PM, Martin Marcher wrote:
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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