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On Monday, August 15, 2011 08:30:04 PM Pandu Poluan wrote: |
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> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 19:47, J. Roeleveld <joost@××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> > On Mon, August 15, 2011 2:22 pm, Pandu Poluan wrote: |
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> >> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 16:08, J. Roeleveld <joost@××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> >>> On Mon, August 15, 2011 8:18 am, Pandu Poluan wrote: |
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> >>>> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 02:29, Joost Roeleveld |
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> >>>>>> That is, how to provide sensible defaults yet not irreversibly |
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> >>>>>> removing Gentoo's freedom. So, GeDZux will be a Gentoo |
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> >>>>>> variant, a |
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> >>>>>> 'submetadistro', if you will :P |
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> >>>>> |
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> >>>>> A profile putting all the necessary tools (xen, kernel, |
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> >>>>> bridge,....) |
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> >>>>> as |
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> >>>>> required. |
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> >>>> |
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> >>>> Aha! Good idea. Let me learn how to make a profile then. |
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> >>> That way we can also set default USE-flags suitable for when using |
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> >>> Xen. |
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> >> |
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> >> Gotcha :-) |
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> >> |
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> >> I'm going to try out on my company's VMware boxes (the guys at |
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> >> xen-users said that Xen runs okay on VMware, albeit without HVM domU |
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> >> support). |
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> > I think starting with a list of packages and use-flags needed to get PV |
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> > and HVM domains running would be a good starting point. |
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> > Then, we can put that into a profile and create a stage4 tar-file with |
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> > current versions. |
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> I assume those are packages and use-flags on the dom0? I agree. |
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> Anyways, good news: I may soon land my grubby hands on an unused IBM |
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> Server. It's a new-ish one, AFAICT, so it should support VT-x. |
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> We can thus test HVM domU's, yay! |
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I've got 2 machines that can run HVM. |
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I am planning on setting one of these up for dual boot into xen for testing |
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purposes already. |
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The other is already running Xen, but not done any HVM on there yet. |
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> > I think it would be a good idea to try to continue on this with the |
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> > maintainers for Xen on Gentoo? |
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> Aren't they on this list, too? |
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I don't know. If this were gentoo-user, then i'd assume so. |