Jarod Wilson wrote : > BERES Laszlo wrote: > > Daniel Ap. Martins Rosa wrote: > > > >> Somebody knows to inform which the version of the Xen that is in the > >> RHEL5.1 Beta? > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release > > Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.1 Beta (Tikanga) > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rpm -q xen > > xen-3.0.3-33.el5 > > The answer is actually a bit more complex than that. The hypervisor is > actually xen 3.1-based, the kernel bits and userland are xen 3.0.3-based > with selected changes from 3.1 back-ported.
Which causes lots of "fun" stuff to happen upon updating to 5.1 without rebooting. See : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=251669 And overall Xen still delivers the same "rough around the edges" feeling. Don't get me wrong, I use Xen on almost all of my RHEL5 installations, but demoing it sort of scares the audience. Minor things could really make a difference here. Things as simple as this : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=251666 But my biggest regret is that there is no "xm vbd-refresh" type of feature, thus it's not possible to "hot grow" a domU filesystem made on a dom0 LV or file. Maybe I should file an enhancement request? Oh, my second biggest request is that it's not possible to set maxmem to a value bigger than the current dom0 free memory. This would be useful to set a high maxmem which could be reached by shutting down other domUs. But I guess this one hits pretty major difficulties (I'm no expert in memory allocation). Matthias -- Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ Fedora release 7 (Moonshine) - Linux kernel 2.6.22.2-57.fc7 Load : 0.54 0.50 0.41 _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
