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