[xenpreview-dev] Extremely poor performance on SUSE 10 dom0

[Thorolf Godawa]

Hi Paul,

> deployed Xen in a production environment yet?
I don't know, I'm using it for a proof-of-concept szenario only!

> We customers can't get SLES 10 yet, and SUSE 10.1 is still in beta.
I'm using it mostly on SLES 10.0 Beta, the first betas where quite bad, 
since Beta 9 Xen is running quite good, yesterday I dl SLES Beta 10 and 
OSS RC1.

I also made a installation of Xen 3.0.1 on Ubuntu on VT-enabled hardware 
and at the time of Beta 3 to 6 it was much more stable than any SuSE.

But beginning with Beta 8 (plus latest changeset) and Beta 9, both have 
Xen 3.0.2 now, also SLES is running stable and in a good performance, 
today I'll try the Beta 10/RC1 on old hardware and in the evening and 
the next days I'll do the same with more modern and VT-enabled hardware!

> I would much rather have embarked on this project with SLES 10 than SUSE 10,
 > but i need to start it now, not in 3 months.
OSS 10.1 should be ready at the end of april, SLES/SLED 10.0 needs maybe 
a little bit longer, will see!

> Is there a way the current Xen preview can be used on SUSE 10, or is
> SUSE 10.1 close enough to release to be used in production?  (My 
> target applications are basic web, proxy, vpn, and mail services.)
I think the latest Beta/RC is quite close to be used in production, I 
would not use the old OSS or SL 10.0 for Xen, I had a lot of problems 
some time ago getting it run at all!

For SLES 10.0 Beta 10 I can tell you more the next days, OSS 10.1 RC1 I 
just will install on a Notebook and check if Xen is running or not - but 
actually I don't think that there are big differences between SLES and OSS.
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Chau y hasta luego,

Thorolf