Eucalyptus

[Mike McGrath]

On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 03:29:21PM -0800, graziano obertelli wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > as you may know (or know now :)), Eucalyptus is in freeze for a 1.6.2
> > release schedule by the end of the month, or the beginning of March, but
> > we would like to make an attempt to have packages for Fedora too for our
> > next release.
> >
> > As mentioned before, we already have a spec file, which produces packages
> > not good enough to be integrated in Fedora, but this will give us a head
> > start to flushing out the installation procedure on Fedora as well as
> > finding how to configure it properly. I would love for comments on how to
> > make things better on Fedora, and in order to do that, we have a source
> > tree available on launchpad for 1.6.2. Problem is that, for now, I'll be
> > working on a private branch which I'll merge if our Q&A will give the
> > green light on the packages: if there is interests in seeing it, I'm more
> > than happy to publish it where is convenient for Fedora. Is there interest
> > for it? Is there a preference of where to put the code?
> >
> > Also, if someone is working on axis2c, axis2 and/or rampartc, I'll be more
> > than happy to use those packages too.
> >
> > The timeline is a bit tight for us, so forgive me if I will make stupid
> > question, which may be answereed but some directed google search. The
> > first one of which is this one: so far we used xen as the hypervisor of
> > choice on CentOS (and RHEL), but I know that now both are included in
> > Fedora. Which one is the preferred one? Which one should be the Eucalyputs
> > default?
> >
>
> Currently Fedora does not ship Xen dom0 capable kernel, so using Xen
> on Fedora requires manually installing dom0 kernel first.
>
> (Fedora is planning to ship Xen dom0 kernel again when the dom0 patches
> are in upstream Linux kernel).
>
> So I guess kvm should be the default in Fedora.
> Xen support should be an option of course, many people are running Xen on Fedora.
>

FWIW, EPEL (with EL-5) shipps a xen capable kernel.

	-Mike