On Fri, 8 Nov 2013, Avi Miller <avi.miller@gmail.com> wrote:
The options I'm considering at the moment are using Oracle Linux for the Dom0 and using Debian for the Dom0 with an Oracle kernel.
Oracle Linux itself doesn’t run Xen well, as it’s a (mostly) pure derivative of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and they removed Xen Dom0 support from their latest release. I would recommend/suggest trying out the combination of Oracle VM 3.2 (which is Xen 4.2) as your Dom0 with Oracle Linux as the DomUs. This would give you an OCFS2-based repository which could be shared across multiple systems.
Note that Oracle VM and Oracle Linux are both free to download, distribute, use and update. Oracle VM also includes a full web-based management tool that configures the server(s), networking, storage and guests, including live migration and HA support out-of-the-box.
What exactly is Oracle VM? Just a Linux distribution specifically for Xen? Does it have the full features? IE can I have the Dom0 running as a full router and use shell access as a supported feature? Or is it expected to be only run via web access? Is BTRFS supported in Oracle VM? OCFS2 doesn't seem to give any benefits over Ext4 for a non-clustered filesystem. HA support out of the box sounds interesting. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/