[CentOS-virt] Xen version

Thu Dec 16 10:19:30 UTC 2010
nux at li.nux.ro <nux at li.nux.ro>

Paul Piscuc writes:

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> Hi,
> 
> 
> We are thinking of using CentOS with XEN in production, but we are facing 
> some issues regarding the 3.0.3 version of the xen hypervisor and windows 
> paravirtualization. The drivers we are using are from here 
> (<URL:http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenWindowsGplPv>http://wiki.xensour 
> ce.com/xenwiki/XenWindowsGplPv). The solution we found is upgrading to xen 
> 3.4.2, using a strange repository (<URL:http://gitco.de>gitco.de), and 
> everything seems to work. Now the question is: would you recomand using 
> the 3.0.3 kernel provided by CentOS in production and searching for other 
> paravirtualization drivers, or go with 3.4.2? Is this version of the 
> hypervisor stable? 

Why get complicated and not use KVM? Xen's future @ RedHat is not that 
bright.

My 2 pence.

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