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[Luke S Crawford]

Nick is the other SysAdmin here at prgmr.com... I'm asking him to look 
at this today. 

Nick, can you see if you can get an ubuntu 8.10 image working under HVM
mode?  here is how I did it on FreeBSD  

http://book.xen.prgmr.com/mediawiki/index.php/FreeBSD_under_HVM

note, do not put vnclisten on a public IP... first, try making it work with
serial console... if that doesn't work we'll create a ssh tunnel or something
so that they can get into the vnc console.  

If you can't get it going I'll look at it when I get home.  



"Marco Pesenti Gritti" <marcopg at sugarlabs.org> writes:

> 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 a newer version of the hypervisor than is on my current production boxes.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