[xen-tools-discuss] Re: What's the best distro for Xen dom0?

[Jeff Forcier]

Do you have any links to the Debian/Ubuntu maintainers specifying
*why* they've dropped some of the Xen packages? (By dom0 I assume you
mean the kernels, since Intrepid still seems to have the "hypervisor"
package but is lacking any of the kernel related ones..?)

I'm hoping that it's something else, such as moving the Xen kernels to
some other package repository or providing tools to make
Xen-compatible kernels out of the "regular" ones instead of having
them ready-made, although that's just blind optimism on my part until
I see some explanations one way or the other :) (Mm, run-on sentence,
yum!)

-Jeff

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 9:44 PM, Mike Bailey <mike at bailey.net.au> wrote:
> It seems my preferred distros have reduced their commitment to Xen. I've
> been reading that Debian (lenny) and Ubuntu (Intrepid) ship without Xen
> dom0's.
> I'm not sure Xen is such a bad choice given that big players like Amazon
> ec2, EngineYard, Slicehost, etc all use it.
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> So, do I switch to one of my less preferred distros like Centos as a more
> solid Xen platform?
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> - Mike
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