Re: ubuntu LTS for system vm? and 64bit?

2013-09-26 Thread Wido den Hollander
On 09/26/2013 01:38 AM, Darren Shepherd wrote: Is there any technical reason why we couldn't use ubuntu LTS (12.04 and soon to be 14.04) for the system VM. Additionally is there any technical reason we couldn't switch to 64bit. I don't necesarily want to get into fight for you favorite

Re: ubuntu LTS for system vm? and 64bit?

2013-09-26 Thread Chiradeep Vittal
Yes. 4.2 has Wheezy with the 3.2 kernel. Theoretically with RPS/RFS we could use multiple cores effectively, but it may be harder in practice. On 9/25/13 10:53 PM, Darren Shepherd darren.s.sheph...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, for sure 32bit PV is faster. Do we require a specific minimum kernel

Re: ubuntu LTS for system vm? and 64bit?

2013-09-26 Thread Chiradeep Vittal
That enabled running without a system vm. But you'd still need a VR if you wanted network services. On 9/26/13 12:47 AM, Sebastien Goasguen run...@gmail.com wrote: On Sep 26, 2013, at 3:27 AM, Wido den Hollander w...@widodh.nl wrote: On 09/26/2013 01:38 AM, Darren Shepherd wrote: Is

ubuntu LTS for system vm? and 64bit?

2013-09-25 Thread Darren Shepherd
Is there any technical reason why we couldn't use ubuntu LTS (12.04 and soon to be 14.04) for the system VM. Additionally is there any technical reason we couldn't switch to 64bit. I don't necesarily want to get into fight for you favorite distro discussion, just curious. Darren

Re: ubuntu LTS for system vm? and 64bit?

2013-09-25 Thread Chiradeep Vittal
32-bit theoretically performs better on Xen. Debian is just more stable than Ubuntu, hence the preference. On 9/25/13 4:38 PM, Darren Shepherd darren.s.sheph...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any technical reason why we couldn't use ubuntu LTS (12.04 and soon to be 14.04) for the system VM.

Re: ubuntu LTS for system vm? and 64bit?

2013-09-25 Thread Darren Shepherd
Yeah, for sure 32bit PV is faster. Do we require a specific minimum kernel version? I though I heard something about upgrading the template for multicore networking or something like that. Darren On Sep 25, 2013, at 10:38 PM, Chiradeep Vittal chiradeep.vit...@citrix.com wrote: 32-bit