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