----- "Robert P. J. Day" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 22 Nov 2009, Dale Bewley wrote: > > ----- "Robert P. J. Day" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > reading here: > > > > > > > http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f12/en-US/html/sect-Release_Notes-Virtualization.html > > > > > > down at the bottom: > > > > > > "KVM requires hardware virtualization features in the host > system. > > > > > > Systems lacking hardware virtualization do not support Xen guests > > > at this time." > > > > > > if one is new to virt, that could be read as, "without HW virt, > > > you're pretty much screwed." or could that be worded a bit > > > differently? > > > > This is the same text carried over from 10 and 11. > > > > > http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f10/en_US/What_Do_System_Adminstrators_Care_About.html#sn-Virtualization > > > > While Xen does not require hardware support, KVM still (always > > will?) does. Xen guests on Fedora still require KVM-based xenner. > > There has been success with Xen dom0 on experimental 3rd party > > kernels, but that may be beyond the scope of the release notes. We > > wouldn't want it to be inferred as a recommendation. > > > > Hopefully the F13 release notes will be able to describe native > > support for Xen dom0 hosts. > > > > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue202#No_Xen_dom0_in_Fedora_12_Hopefully_13 > > > > If you have any suggestions for further improvement to the release > > notes, please keep them coming. > > for people new to virtualization, i was simply suggesting that that > wording still leaves some doubt as to what's possible. > > what about a slightly longer explanation which describes what you > can support based on the capabilities of your system, as in: > > 1) if your system supports H/W virtualization, you can do the > following: > > ... list of things ... > > 2) if your system does *not* support H/W virtualization, you are > limited to the following: > > ... much shorter list ... > > that should be written for the newbie since the most frustrating > experience for beginners is to invest considerable time trying to do > something, only to eventually learn that it wasn't possible all > along. > > i'm thinking a page entitled something like "So, you have a > computer > and you want to get into virtualization." does such a page exist? > > rday
Under http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Virtualization We do have http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Getting_started_with_virtualization -- Dale Bewley - Unix Administrator - Shields Library - UC Davis GPG: 0xB098A0F3 0D5A 9AEB 43F4 F84C 7EFD 1753 064D 2583 B098 A0F3 _______________________________________________ Fedora-virt mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-virt
