[plug] Server back up

Patrick Coleman blinken at gmail.com
Mon Oct 8 21:00:14 WST 2007


On 10/8/07, Adrian Chadd <adrian at creative.net.au> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 08, 2007, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> > Bernd Felsche wrote:
> >
> > > Serves you right for replacing the stable operating system on the
> > > EPIA. :-)
> > >
> > > Heaven only knows why such a machine needs to be "fast".
> >
> > The EPIA is not only unreliable, it also can't run Xen ... at the moment
> > we're using User Mode Linux for virtualisation, which may or may not be
> > the cause of the crashiness.  (Maybe we shouldn't be bothering with
> > virtualisation at all on the PLUG? *shrug* It seemed like a cool idea
> > when we set it up in 2004-ish!)
>
> .. why won't it run Xen?

I imagine it will, but not HVM domains. I suspect the main reason that
it isn't xen-ified is because three years ago Xen wasn't quite what it
is now :)

-Patrick



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