Re: [Xen-users] New to Xen

[Simon Hobson <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Miles Fidelman wrote:

> Personally, I do most of my work on Debian, and my production 
> servers are still running Lenny and Xen 3 - so my experience is 
> dated (and about to get refreshed):
> - the basic install is easy: simply an apt-get of the current package
>
> - there's a bit of trickiness in getting all the various 
> configuration stuff right - in lots of places (from kernel 
> parameters in Grub and on - and I expect this has changed again, 
> what with grub changes going from Lenny to Squeeze) - there are 
> things to worry about like memory ballooning, pinning VCPUs, time 
> sources, etc. -- make sure to read through http://wiki.debian.org/Xen
All my systems are Debian (mostly Squeeze now) apart from one.
Xen is fairly easy to set up, and I think if you stick to simple 
stuff then it's little more than "apt-get install 
xen-hypervisor-<something> xen-tools-<something>". "apt-cache search 
xen-hypervisor" will show you the package versions available.
The main niggle (as already hinted at) is that Grub2 defaults to 
putting Xen boot options after native kernels. The easy fix for that 
is to change the name of the files in (IIRC) /etc/grub so that the 
Xen config file comes before the native kernels (Linux) config file.
Initially, avoid trying to get PyGrub working. Just copy the DomU 
kernel and initrd to Dom0 and boot from those. PyGrub does mostly 
work, but it can be a bit fiddly getting the right version of Grub 
that will run in a DomU - the version in Stable (Squeeze) bombs out 
as it can't understand the disk setup.

admin@xxxxxxx wrote:

> > Im very suspected to your mental hypersensibility
> Gee Sigmund, ... Bravo !
>
> I am sure Basil Fawlty would have a field day with this line.
>
> You should get away from that hot server air and AMD processors 
> you're running.
> What I heard they are made in Dresden Sachsen DE.
> Those chips tend to de-gass (an old habit of chips made there) a lot 
> compared to Intel and it can easily place a normal person in DomU if 
> you use the server air to blow dry your hair every morning before 
> you go look in the mirror to figure out who you are.
> Just good advice.
Sorry, but you really are not doing yourself any favours. You posted 
an (IMO) suboptimally worded request which resulted in some flames. 
If you continue with insults then you merely confirm to some people 
that you aren't to be taken seriously and perhaps aren't worthy of 
help - there are people who require help and who are able to put that 
sort of thing to one side, if someone has to choose who to give their 
time to, then the polite and rational person is likely to win.
--
Simon Hobson

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