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[Marco Pesenti Gritti]

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 4:01 AM, Luke S Crawford <lsc at prgmr.com> wrote:
> "Marco Pesenti Gritti" <marcopg at sugarlabs.org> writes:
>
>> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 2:13 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
>> <marcopg at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>> > Huh, I was suspecting this bug:
>> >
>> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460585
>> >
>> > But now I see it's only about virtinst! So maybe you are right and the
>> > problem is just the xen kernel... Going to try that out.
>>
>> Oh I think F10 doesn't have a kernel-xen :/
>
> as far as I can tell, f10 wants paravirt-ops, which is only available with
> a newer version of the hypervisor than is on my current production boxes.
>
> (I'm using the CentOS 5.2 Xen hypervisor, which is the Xen 3.1 hypervisor.
> paravirt ops wants Xen 3.3, which I will have on my next server)
>
> KVM would work, though really it's still comparitavely immatture (even though
> the linux kernel guys seem to like it more than Xen)   as would Xen
> in HVM mode.    Both these options would be quite a bit slower than
> paravirtualized xen.  I should be learning more about KVM, so maybe I should
> dedicate a server to it... but we're still taking about a week or so of lead
> time.
>
> Do you want to try runing in HVM mode?  I can do that right now without
> upgrading anything.

I'm not particularly worried by the small performance hit, so I think
we should give this a try.

Marco