I upgraded one of my boxes from FC4 (worked great with xen) to FC5 and have waited for months for the issues with iptables/NAT/kernel crash to be sorted out and corrected. Now all seems well; FC5 and xen seem ready to go.
But... FC6 is available. So I'm trying to decide if I should go with FC5/xen or upgrade to FC6/xen (since this box isn't being used yet).
Before I commit the box to production, I'd prefer upgrading to FC6/xen so I don't need to upgrade it in 4-6 months.
Are there any known, nasty show-stoppers with FC6 and xen? or with FC6 in general?
This machine will be used to host several VMs: firewall, web server, mail server, dns, squid, etc. 32 bit, only Fedora FCx dom0 and guests.
Thanks,
Dave
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 01:21:46PM -0800, master@bradleyland.com wrote:
I upgraded one of my boxes from FC4 (worked great with xen) to FC5 and have waited for months for the issues with iptables/NAT/kernel crash to be sorted out and corrected. Now all seems well; FC5 and xen seem ready to go.
But... FC6 is available. So I'm trying to decide if I should go with FC5/xen or upgrade to FC6/xen (since this box isn't being used yet).
Before I commit the box to production, I'd prefer upgrading to FC6/xen so I don't need to upgrade it in 4-6 months.
Are there any known, nasty show-stoppers with FC6 and xen? or with FC6 in general?
With the latest errata we pushed to FC5, the Xen stacks & kernels on both FC5 and FC6 are practically identical[1] - they're both running 2.6.18 kernels with Xen 3.0.3 hypervisor & kernel & userspace bits. So in terms of guest OS compatability, stability,performance, etc you shouldn't see any difference between Xen in FC5 & FC6 (assuming both a fully yum update'd). Thus I'd recommend FC6 since you'll get a longer lifetime before needing to do another major upgrade.
Regards, Dan.
[1] In fact FC5 is currently a couple of changesets ahead of FC6, but we'll have an errata for FC6 to update this soon...
On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, master@bradleyland.com wrote:
Are there any known, nasty show-stoppers with FC6 and xen? or with FC6 in general?
For me, broken or severely degraded /dev/random support.
Paul