Xen and kernel26-xen

mrunion · 2010-03-03 23:37:04

I did a search, but am still slightly unfamiliar with Xen and the need for kernel26-xen in the VMs. I have installed the "regular" Arch install on the VMs (2 so far) and they seem to run fine. Being that is the case, do I need to even install kernel26-xen on them? Is there a speed or configurability advantage?

Thanks in advance.

steve___ · 2010-03-04 03:30:20

Have a look here:
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16087

Note the comment:
Comment by: raku on Fri, 01 Jan 2010 15:56:38 +0000

There it's suggested this kernel is configured for domU's running on a Citrix XenServer.

mrunion · 2010-03-04 16:08:06

Ah! I just didn't read down far enough!

steve___ · 2010-03-04 20:03:04

That's all good.

I suggest adding '[solved]' to the thread title.

voidzero · 2010-05-16 20:31:00

Sorry for adding to this two month old thread, but I think it's still current. I suppose that citrix is hardware. I don't have a citrix server, I have a custom build Intel Q9300 server. Right now it's running archlinux x64 with two qemu guests, but I'm thinking about switching over to xen. I'm still a bit unfamiliar about the good way to go ahead with this, though. I think that one could compile the kernel26-xen-dom0 kernel, but is kernel26-xen a viable alternative? I would really like to have a xen archlinux dom0 host, with kernel 2.6.33. So what are the appropriate steps to take? Is it enough to build a kernel26-xen kernel or is this specifically and only for citrix? Are there other alternatives to take so that I could run kernel 2.6.33 on the host? And the linux guests, do they need a special kernel? One of my guests is running ubuntu karmic x64.

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#1 2010-03-03 23:37:04

Xen and kernel26-xen

#2 2010-03-04 03:30:20

Re: Xen and kernel26-xen

#3 2010-03-04 16:08:06

Re: Xen and kernel26-xen

#4 2010-03-04 20:03:04

Re: Xen and kernel26-xen

#5 2010-05-16 20:31:00

Re: Xen and kernel26-xen

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