Ok, thank you for your clarification. I will make an attempt to get xen working with 3.x.x kernels on nixos. M.
2012/5/17 Eelco Dolstra <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > On 17/05/12 10:10, Marco Maggesi wrote: > >> My understanding was that Xen were actively employed by the Xen >> developers, at least at a give time in the past >> Is it still true? > > I guess you mean "by the NixOS developers". We did run a Xen machine until > recently ("mrhankey" if you're looking for the config). However, I stopped > using Xen because libvirt + QEMU/KVM is, IMHO, simpler and works just as well. > ("Simpler" because a KVM VM is just a normal user process, and you don't need > to > run a non-default kernel on the host.) Example machine: > > https://nixos.org/repos/nix/configurations/trunk/tud/stan.nix > > It would be great to have Xen working again, though. From what I understand, > Linux 3.0 and higher can run as Dom0, so you can probably get rid of the > 2.6.32-xen kernel. The kernel will probably need some configuration options > to > enable Dom0 support though. _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
