On 15/06/2012 12:02, George Dunlap wrote:
On 15/06/12 11:54, Jonathan Tripathy wrote:
On 15/06/2012 11:50, George Dunlap wrote:
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Jonathan Tripathy <jonnyt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi There,
Sorry, I meant 4.1.x. Who are these vendors? Debian only seems to do 4.0.x
and CentOS and Ubuntu don't offer Xen at all..
Debian Squeeze offers 4.1, as does Ubuntu 12.04.
-George
Well look at that!! Ubuntu does indeed seem to offer 4.1!!
http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/xen-hypervisor-4.1-amd64
This means that the Xen page on the Ubuntu website is wrong!!
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Xen
"Ubuntu 10.04 does not come with Xen binaries so you will have
to manually download and compile Xen along with a kernel that is
suitable to work with Xen"
Hmm -- that will have to be changed. :-)
I
just assumed that future version didn't, but clearly they do.
Is anyone aware of the Ubuntu teams commitment to Xen? I always
thought that the Ubuntu folks were backing KVM...
Canonical and Ubuntu are not opposed to Xen; in fact, the
Canonical team has been pretty helpful in getting XCP working as a
package you can install in Ubuntu, and also fixing Xen-related
kernel bugs. KVM is just their default at the moment, and
therefore the focus of their own developers. So more of the
burden of making sure things work falls on the Xen community.
Relationships with distros has been a weak point of xen.org in the
past; but we're trying to address that going forward.
-George
Thanks, George.
So then, going forward, you recommend that we switch to Ubuntu+Xen
(using Ubuntu Universe repo) if we want to use 4.1.x? As a company,
we have plenty of experience with Ubuntu, so that's not an issue.
I'm specially talking about the Xen aspects here. We just want to
avoid having to compile Dom0 kernels and Xen ourselves. While we're
comfortable doing this during testing, we'd rather leave our
production servers up to package management :)
Thanks
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