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[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-users] Best way to get Xen into Ubuntu Natty/64bit
FILE UNDER: Why people consider using Xen complicated. In the second install run now ;) I boot off a 2GB industrial flash drive. First time the installer just had to create a swap space on that. The box has 96GB ram, but the installer loves a swap space, and since it's so much ram, lets use 1.99GB for swap and the rest for the OS install. This would be easier if the chipsets SATA controller with those large SATA drives would be detected, but right now I'm down to 2GB... That aside, the best looking and fastest installer I have seen in ages. Makes Ubuntu and RHEL installers look from the stone ages. And holy hell, they use *kexec* to skip the post-install reboot. This mighty. If there was just some global button to disable all the automagic. Especially when it's so broken: "trying to download release notes... failed" "select cancel to skip all stuff that needs internet access"... cancel! "now downloading updates" 30 minutes later i'm right in dependency hell because they have a circular dependency for python. python depends on python(abi) which would be installed with python and I feel somewhere between just dding my root device and running away. The "solution" would apparently be to remove the "minimal install patterns" and with gods grace finally installing CUPS plus a few dozen more desktop pkgs. No system can live without CUPS ever. Or cyrus, or samba. I wonder if I'm allowed to uninstall those later. After this I was actually able to installl Xen. Including SDL and XORG and GNOME LIBS after I selected "no, don't install the GUI bits" SUSE might in some fashion be the best, well-rounded smarted Linux distro around. It might even have working Xen. And it looks like it does. But it doesn't support my disk controllers and it makes my head hurt so much. :/ This story ends with a running xenstored, unmounted xenstore mountpoint and xl / xm not working. OpenSuse + headless xen server? Not so much. _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
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