[plug] Xen is magic

[Simon Marko]

Craig Ringer wrote:

>Any others here tried out Xen in production environments? Thoughts /
>comments?
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While I haven't tried it in production, I have tried (unsuccessfully) to 
get the Xen0 kernel to boot.
This is the Xen0 that comes with FC4 BTW

I was impressed by the article in LXF and xen would certainly improve 
the IT lab that I do at work (mostly with Oracle, PHP, Apache).
It would mean I don't have to go searching for $$$$ every time I need 
another node in the grid, anyway ;-)

The problem I have is probably driver related as I hear others have had 
problems with this area.

The last message I see when booting (I think) is the kernel sensing the 
SATA drives and stalling
CTRL-ALT-DEL causes it to shutdown, though so I'm not sure what stage of 
boot it has gotten to.

Sad, since I have 180GB of disk set aside for domainX filesystems doing 
nothing...

::SimonM::