On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 8:49 PM, Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm on a crash course with Xen .... got some quick questions. Which course :) > Hardware is Dual 3GHz EM64T CPUs on an IBM x346 machine. > > Using Squeeze amd64 installation with lvm2, all good so far. Using 6 disks > with the ServeRAID-7k presenting 6 logical -- I've RAID6-ed 3 partitions, > the first for /boot, the second for swap and the third for lvm2. I have seen in sid binary which can be installed via apt-get http://packages.debian.org/sid/xen-hypervisor-4.0-amd64 if you have time upgrade and use this I pointed. > > Don't have HVM, so using para-virtualization. > > > I found that I couldn't start the Dom0 machine too quickly, so I changed the > grub timeout from 5 seconds to 10 seconds -- if I start it too quickly, then > it bombs out [panic] and does a reboot. After waiting the full 10 seconds, > all is fine. Is there a setting that would help with this so that the Dom0 > can be started immediately? This question would be handled better at Xen mailing list.
> Other grub adjustments were made, Xen kernel first and no OS probing. > > > Using xen-tools to create DomU machines (one squeeze using debbootstrap only > so far). > > > > Adjusted these two entries in /etc/default/xendomains > > # By default, when Xen dom0 shuts down or reboots, it tries to save the > # state of the domUs. Sometimes there are problems with that and > # because it is also clean to just have the VMs shutdown upon host > # shutdown > > XENDOMAINS_RESTORE=false > XENDOMAINS_SAVE="" > > > > When you reboot the Dom0 machine without first shutting down the DomUs, does > it do a normal shutdown of each DomU cleanly? It looks like it does a very > fast halt, so I'm not sure the shutdown would be as clean as I would like. You are right I feel (I might be wrong) > > > My first DomU machine is 1 hour slower than my Dom0 machine, how should I > properly synchronize the times? > Some one should help here. -- Regards Abhi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTinztShdUGnHSQJdguvHxpeje5UgyAn0KsjXW3=w...@mail.gmail.com
