Re: [gentoo-user] Linode discontinuing Xen, migrating to KVM

[Stroller]

> On 2 Oct 2017, at 18:30, Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@×××××××××××.org> wrote:
>
> One thing I do seem to recall is there was somewhere that I had to
> define Xen as the virtualization environment being used, but I can't
> remember where I did that. Was that in the kernel config? If so, their
> tool should (hopefully) handle that change.

See last lines:

~ $ grep -B 25 -ie xen -ie kvm /etc/rc.conf
# This is mainly used for saying which services do NOT provide net.
#rc_net_tap0_provide="!net"

# This is the subsystem type.
# It is used to match against keywords set by the keyword call in the
# depend function of service scripts.
#
# It should be set to the value representing the environment this file is
# PRESENTLY in, not the virtualization the environment is capable of.
# If it is commented out, automatic detection will be used.
#
# The list below shows all possible settings as well as the host
# operating systems where they can be used and autodetected.
#
# ""               - nothing special
# "docker"         - Docker container manager (Linux)
# "jail"           - Jail (DragonflyBSD or FreeBSD)
# "lxc"            - Linux Containers
# "openvz"         - Linux OpenVZ
# "prefix"         - Prefix
# "rkt"            - CoreOS container management system (Linux)
# "subhurd"        - Hurd subhurds (to be checked)
# "systemd-nspawn" - Container created by systemd-nspawn (Linux)
# "uml"            - Usermode Linux
# "vserver"        - Linux vserver
# "xen0"           - Xen0 Domain (Linux and NetBSD)
# "xenU"           - XenU Domain (Linux and NetBSD)
~ $

This on a Linode host, BTW. They haven't told me I need to do anything, so I hope I'm ok.

HTH,

Stroller.