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[Feature Request] Paravirtualisationsupport for ASG

Hello
I would like paravirtualisation-support for ASG V7.
I'm running an XenServer 5 but I'm having trouble with Timeouts of IM-Clients during send of data.
No pings are awailable sometimes.

It seems as if the ASG is sometimes not reachable.
I guess it's a problem with this missing support

greetz
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0 BrucekConvergent over 16 years ago

I think this is already enabled in the Version 7 kernel...
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0 barkas over 16 years ago in reply to BrucekConvergent

ASG uses a 2.6.16 kernel, which is quite old and has no paravirtualization support.
paravirt didn't even exist then, and I couldn't find any xen integration either.

It would be nice though, because especially the clock is strange in hvm mode and it's not very fast.
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0 utm_kid over 16 years ago in reply to barkas

ASG uses a 2.6.16 kernel, which is quite old and has no paravirtualization support.
paravirt didn't even exist then, and I couldn't find any xen integration either.

It would be nice though, because especially the clock is strange in hvm mode and it's not very fast.

uname -a
Linux ******x 2.6.16.62-105-default #1 Tue Feb 17 15:01:06 UTC 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

we can expect lot of vitualization things upcoming version of astaro as novell is closely working with vmware ,(i expect once sles 11 release we can expect that very soon )

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0 BarryG over 16 years ago in reply to utm_kid

FWIW, afaik paravirtualization is not available in VMWare.

I don't know how much Suse supports Xen; I do know that RedHat is pushing Xen strongly.

Barry
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0 barkas over 16 years ago in reply to BarryG

I don't see the point about suse in this thread.

It's a question of 7 or 8 kernel options and that's it.
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0 BarryG over 16 years ago in reply to barkas

Astaro's kernel is based on SLES.

Barry
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0 utm_kid over 16 years ago in reply to BarryG

FWIW, afaik paravirtualization is not available in VMWare.

I don't know how much Suse supports Xen; I do know that RedHat is pushing Xen strongly.

Barry

Sir,
Redhat is pushing KVM which comes with kernel 2.6.20 ,with Redhat vesion 5.4 KVM is default not xen ,

Red Hat has bought Qumranet, the company behind KVM virtualisation technology

if i am not wrong praravirtulzation is type of virtualzation
Suse support xen with sles 10

Paravirtualization Vs Virtualization

but latest news is that novell and vmware working very closely for sles 11

please correct me if i am wrong

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0 IngoPohlschneider over 16 years ago in reply to utm_kid

Hello
I wondered, if the kernel is somehow manipulated by Astaro.

If it is just the standard-kernel of an SLES, wouldn't it be possible to exchange the kernel to enable the support for xen?

greetz
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0 BarryG over 16 years ago in reply to IngoPohlschneider

IIRC, Astaro has written some additions to netfilter (IPTables) and other enhancements. I don't know if they've all been merged upstream into SLES or Linus' kernels yet.

Barry
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0 tuxmaster over 16 years ago

I would like to see xenserver fully supported due to the HCL is a bit more lax then vmware.
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