On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 20:49 +0200, jef peeraer wrote: > John O'Gorman schreef: > > I have installed the Xen kernel successfully on openSUSE 10.2 > > > > But my attempts to use Yast to create VMs have not worked as I expected. > > With the help of a friend I have been able to get VMs working and after > > quite a lot of fiddling about get all the GNOME graphical desktop stuff > > into working order. e.g. the Yast sinks back to text mode when > > installing VMs. > > > > Before wasting anyone else's time on this, can we expect the 10.2 > > version of Yast to be up to the job of fully creating and intalling VMs? > > > > After the trouble I had with paravirtualised VMs I am shrinking from > > attempting the fully virtualised ones (I have an IBM x3500 to try it > > on). > > > > My impression is that the openSUSE 10.2 Xen is also not up to date with > > the Xen site. I expect that this is inevitable. > > > > My ambition is that when I have mastered the use of Xen, I will upgrade > > all my client sites to using it so that upgrades for version to version > > of Linux may be less traumatic (for me) than they are now. > > Is it better to use the source from the Xen site and install VMs by hand > > using the basic commands vmcreate and so on, or persist with Yast? > > > > Can anyone knowledgeable comment on these points? > > John, > > do you mean that in the future, we will be able to install a new > distribution by just copying one image ? That had not been my thought at all. But now that you mention it, I suppose it is possible, provided that you reconfigured network addresses, routing etc. My intention was that while they were running on vm1, I could be installing on vm2. Then when everything tested OK, just switch them over to vm2. The next upgrade would then be on vm1, and so on. > i must say that i've already read some parts about virtualisation, but > i thought a 64 bit system was needed for this, and my experiences with > 64 bit versions are not that satisfying... No it does not need to be 64bit. The machine I am learning this stuff on is 64 bit, but I have installed the 32 bit version of openSUSE 10.2 on it. The Xen stuff does work, but the Yast support for it seems partially broken.
regards John O'Gorman > > > jef peeraer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
