Re: [Xen-users] Best Dom0 Distro for Hardware Detection, etc.

[Jason Solan <jsolan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My experience with Fedora has been less than great.  Fedora 6 was based
on xen 3.0.3 and it behaved as such.  However i had a lot of stability
issues with the kernel.  Fedora 7 kernels have been rock solid for me,
but they advertise xen as being 3.1, which is not entirely true, at
least from the 64-bit aspect.  If you are running 32-bit then you
probably shouldn't have any issues with Fedora 7.  Their gui tools make
installation of PV domU's pretty easy, as long as the domU is fedora as
well.  I can't say that i've tried putting another paravirtualized
distro on it, and i don't use the gui tools for HVM installation.

I've not used ubuntu at all so i can't speak for that.

On Sun, 2007-08-26 at 12:41 -0700, Mathew Brown wrote:
> Hi,
>   I was wondering what the best distribution for running a Dom0 would
>   be?  Since I plan on running it on a laptop, it would probably need a
>   pretty up-to-date kernel (2.6.22 or so).  From what I can tell, Ubuntu
>   has a very up-to-date Xen package (2.6.22-9-xen -
>   http://packages.ubuntu.com/gutsy/base/linux-image-2.6.22-9-xen) and so
>   does Fedora 7 (2.6.20).  Would anyone recommend one over the other? 
>   Or do you think I should give XenExpress a test drive on the laptop
>   first?  Thanks for your feedback
> -- 
>   Mathew Brown
>   mathewbrown@xxxxxxxxxxx
> 


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