On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Miles Fidelman <[email protected]> wrote: > All the discussions of "what's the best distribution to run Xen on" seem > to focus on Linux.
Probably because opensolaris is still a "newbie" in Xen world. And the fact that it can't run out-of-the-box on many HP servers (the ones that use smart array). Add to that the fact that you're practically stuck with Sun's version of Xen (3.1.4, is it?), with little-to-no chance of adopting Xen-3.3 anytime soon, surely the "seem to focus on Linux" part makes sense. Then again, some people (like me) might consider all the opensolaris goodies (zvol, dtrace, etc.) makes it worthed (at least for certain requirements) :D > > I've been considering running Xen on OpenSolaris, to take advantage of ZFS. > > Anybody have any experiences, comments, things to watch out, etc.? > Lets see. Here's what's most important for me: - watch out for command and config location differences. I got a hard time getting domUs autostart (hint: opensoslaris don't use /etc/xen/auto) and setting their vnc console to bind to all ip by default (no /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp). - watch out for bridges and vlans. Opensolaris 2008.11 uses different mechanism compared to previous versions - you might want to try setting refreservation=none on zvols. This should give the same space-saving result as using sparse-file for domU's backing storage. - James Harper's widely-tested GPLPV driver for windows domU don't work on opensolaris dom0 (yet). Sun has their own PV driver, but I'm not sure how well it performs. Regards, Fajar _______________________________________________ xen-discuss mailing list [email protected]
