<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">> And I would hope that the installer would be clever enough to see if KVM <br>> is supported and offer xen if not. Doesn't need to be default, available <br>> is fine.<br><br>What if i don't want KVM install no matter of hardware ?<br>I will want Xen on icore7 + ASUS P6TDT+ 16 GB RAM , Dell PowerEdge and so on ... <br><br>Boris<br><br>--- On <b>Tue, 11/9/10, Bill Davidsen <i><davidsen@tmr.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com><br>Subject: Re: [fedora-virt] [Fedora-xen] Dom0 xen support in Fedora 15?<br>To: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com><br>Cc: xen@lists.fedoraproject.org, virt@lists.fedoraproject.org<br>Date: Tuesday, November 9, 2010, 11:21 AM<br><br><div class="plainMail">Daniel P. Berrange
wrote:<br>> On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 11:52:08AM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:<br>> <br>>> Dor Laor wrote:<br>>> <br>>>> On 11/08/2010 04:55 AM, M A Young wrote:<br>>>> <br>>>>> What do others think about this? For example is it achievable as a<br>>>>> feature, is it too early and better to wait for F16, and what else should<br>>>>> we aim to do to make xen usable in Fedora?<br>>>>><br>>>>> <br>>>> Have you consider kvm? it's upstream since 2.6.20 and now its more ready<br>>>> than ever.<br>>>><br>>>> <br>>> There are some good tutorials which should explain the difference<br>>> between xen and kvm, particularly the performance and hardware<br>>> requirements of each.<br>>>
<br>> In any case, the question of whether KVM or Xen is best, is not really<br>> relevant to whether Xen Dom0 has a place in F15. Fedora will welcome any<br>> software that meets the packaging& licensing guidelines, and has someone<br>> who is willing to maintain it. So if people want to maintain Xen as an<br>> alternative virtualization option in Fedora, they're welcome todo so.<br>> KVM will of course remain the default virt host setup offered in the<br>> installer<br>> <br><br>Fine. The point I was making is that a non-trivial user base has <br>hardware which does not support KVM, both legacy and recent low end CPUs <br>like ATOM (and Celeron, I believe). And there is a fair amount of old <br>hardware which does support KVM, but not all that well, like Q6600, <br>which benefit from using xen. So while KVM may be a choice for recent <br>hardware, there is a user base which would benefit
from having xen.<br><br>And I would hope that the installer would be clever enough to see if KVM <br>is supported and offer xen if not. Doesn't need to be default, available <br>is fine.<br><br>-- <br>Bill Davidsen<<a ymailto="mailto:davidsen@tmr.com" href="/mc/compose?to=davidsen@tmr.com">davidsen@tmr.com</a>><br> "We can't solve today's problems by using the same thinking we<br> used in creating them." - Einstein<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>virt mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:virt@lists.fedoraproject.org" href="/mc/compose?to=virt@lists.fedoraproject.org">virt@lists.fedoraproject.org</a><br><a href="https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/virt" target="_blank">https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/virt</a><br></div></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>