[xen-tools] Re: Recommendation for amd64 machine

[Ward Vandewege]

On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 02:01:34PM +0200, Sven Hartge wrote:
> Edd Dumbill wrote:
> 
> > We've got an amd64 box on our hands, and are looking for the most
> > reliable way currently to run Xen on it. It seems that running a native
> > 64bit Linux on it means we need to use an unstable Xen. However, running
> > a 32bit Linux on it, we've been unable to compile Xen properly, the
> > compilation dying somewhere in the assembler stage.
> 
> > Has anybody got a happy 64 bit setup?
> 
> I am running several 64bit AMD64-Xen hosts (with 3.0.2, the packages
> from backports.org and the xen-patch from alioth) with 64bit DomU and
> 32bit DomU (the latter of course with a 64bit-kernel and 32bit userland
> [except for iptables package, which has to be a 64bit package]).
> 
> So far no problems, very good performance, even if some of the domains
> are under heavy load.

Same here - got several AMD64-Xen setups running on 3.0.2, no problems
whatsoever.

Thanks,
Ward.

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