On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 09:02:09PM +0200, Tobias Dörkes wrote: > Some weeks ago, i tried to implement the "VM shared kernel" using SLES9. > But without success. So i asked SUSE, but SuSE does not support the "VM > shared kernel" !!!
Well, there are no support services from SUSE for this kernel feature, indeed. The functionality is compiled into SLES kernels (the kernel CONFIG option is set,) however. Whether it works, I don't know. > They said that if i want to use this option, i will have to install a > "native" kernel from kernel.org. Actually, we do not know if it works with the vanilla kernels, either. Quite frankly, in my opinion you really don't gain that much from this feature (unless you have a great amount of almost identical guests, all of them running the same kernel) and upgrading the kernel probably becomes an administrative nightmare, if I understand the procedure outlined in the redpaper on this correctly. If you want to be able to reproduce the memory footprint of guests sharing the same files DCSS and xip2 provide far more flexibility. Just my € 0.02 on this topic... Best regards, -- Joerg Reuter http://yaina.de/jreuter And I make my way to where the warm scent of soil fills the evening air. Everything is waiting quietly out there.... (Anne Clark) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
