xen virtualization and linux distros

[Dave Cramer]

So far I've gotten Xen on FC6 working.

there's some warts, but for the most part it works.

So questions

I plan on running a database server on one of the guests. How much  
overhead is there in the disk device driver ?

Also is there a way to get access to a physical ethernet interface in  
the guest ? I have 3 on the machine, might as well use them

Any comments on how robust they are ?

Dave
On 10-Feb-07, at 7:56 AM, Fraser Campbell wrote:

> On Saturday 10 February 2007 03:57, Christopher Friedt wrote:
>
>> I've heard excellent things about Xen. The question is, which  
>> 'distro'
>> should one use with it.
>
> Depends what you want to run on it (any commercial apps?) and what  
> distros you
> are most comfortable with.  Then of course there's the state of Xen  
> support
> for that distro.  RHEL5 is scheduled for release very soon and I  
> expect it
> will have some of the better Xen support once it's out.  SLES10  
> (and some of
> their free distros have it).
>
>> I've been a gentooer for quite a while now, and believe that it's  
>> pretty
>> great, even for server administration. The Xen / Gentoo  
>> documentation is
>> pretty good, and they've apparently even done it somehow so that when
>> you make a new image, it doesn't have to be a whole distro - only  
>> some
>> basic necessities.
>
> Any Xen host can have that.  It's called copy-on-write filesystem, the
> underlying technology is just a writeable LVM snapshot - unless  
> something new
> has come along.
>
> If you are most comfortable with gentoo and it fits the business  
> purpose then
> gentoo would probably be a good choice.
>
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