[CentOS] Xen in my financial news

[Michael Best]

Karanbir Singh wrote:
> Robert wrote:
> 
>> this was in my financial news today.
>>
>> http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nf/20051206/bs_nf/39937
>>
>> if i may inquire, is anyone here using this effectively and reliably on
>> CentOS?
>>
>> ive seen some other threads yet didnt pay but cursory attention
>>
> 
> There are rpms avilable at http://www.karan.org/mock/Xen/
> based on a few sessions worth of testing, they do work. I've updated the 
> glibc's to the latest released on CentOS4/i386
> 
> note: Kernel is XenSource supplied - and is not the 2.6.9-*.EL series
> 
> - K

And it has a minor bug in the networking code between the dom0s and the 
domUs that has been fixed in the development tree but a workaround is to 
set your dom0 mtu lower.

i.e. "ifconfig eth0 mtu 1400"

I'm going to try patching xen into the EL kernel today hopefully.

-Mike