From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Tremer To: documentation@lists.ipfire.org Subject: Re: Xen Documentation Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 17:05:49 +0100 Message-ID: <1424189149.17826.130.camel@ipfire.org> In-Reply-To: <54E3057A.4030504@dailydata.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============2458716250159082205==" List-Id: --===============2458716250159082205== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, if I may send you a little wishlist: There are many many guides about how to set up a Xen server with Debian. I am not sure about the state of all of them. Some of them are based on outdated versions of Debian. I suppose it is best to merge them all together and delete the rest. http://wiki.ipfire.org/start?do=search&id=xen Maybe it is a good idea to start a little virtualisation section (http://wiki.ipfire.org/en/virtualization/start) with subsections for Xen (http://wiki.ipfire.org/en/virtualization/xen/start), KVM and all the rest. Explaining an installation of the IPFire system from scratch should not be necessary but the differences to using Xen should be pointed out somewhere. I personally am always confused about the HVM and PV thing. What should people use? What are the advantages/disadvantages? There was also this: http://planet.ipfire.org/post/dropping-support-for-xen-3-x-deprecation-warning http://planet.ipfire.org/post/bye-bye-xen-legacy-kernel Many people use the feature where you can hand over the physical hardware to the guest machine. Does this actually still work? What are the benefits of that? All this information should be out there somewhere in the wiki. Putting it all together in a nice section with small pages which are easy to find would be really great :) -Michael On Tue, 2015-02-17 at 03:10 -0600, R. W. Rodolico wrote: > David, > > It would be great if you could get some notes on this. Even if they are > rough, it would be better than nothing. Having never messed with KVM > (I'm Debian/Xen for the most part), I really don't know much about it, > though I do engage in "religious wars" over KVM vs Xen vs Virtual Box > with from friends/associates of mine. > > Anyway, if you had some brief notes, it would be great to include them. > > Rod > > On 02/16/2015 11:07 PM, David J. Allen wrote: > > On 02/16/2015 08:11 PM, R. W. Rodolico wrote: > >> I am in the process of creating documentation for a Xen virtual IPFire > >> install. If anyone else is doing it also, please let me know so we can > >> collaborate. I'm hopeful to have it complete Friday 20 Feb. > >> > >> I am trying an install using the scon image. Assuming that works, should > >> I also write documentation on how to do it from a standard "installer" > >> installation? > >> > >> Again, if anyone else is doing this, please let me know so we do not > >> duplicate efforts. > >> > >> Rod > > > > I am not writing docs on doing so* but I have been running Ipfire in a > > VM under KVM on Scientific Linux 6.x for a couple of years now. I think > > setting up Ipfire was easier than getting the KVM set up right. > > > > The VM host box has 2 onboard NICs, but I'm using a dual-NIC card in the > > box which is dedicated to the Ipfire VM. The tricky part was figuring > > out how to give Ipfire exclusive access to the WAN NIC without it being > > accessible to the KVM host and the other VM guests. > > > > > > * Although I should do it at least for myself - had to redo my > > installation a while back after moving and had left no notes for myself. > > Which of course resulted in re-inventing my own wheel! ;) > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Documentation mailing list > > Documentation(a)lists.ipfire.org > > http://lists.ipfire.org/mailman/listinfo/documentation > --===============2458716250159082205== Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" MIME-Version: 1.0 LS0tLS1CRUdJTiBQR1AgU0lHTkFUVVJFLS0tLS0KVmVyc2lvbjogR251UEcgdjIKCmlRSWNCQUFC Q2dBR0JRSlU0MmJnQUFvSkVJQjU4UDl2a0FrSCs2b1FBS0wxRXpjcjJvK3lpa1dweEhFM210U1cK UUgrQ3ZNT3FzVFpDbUpGK2c0UjR5U2E0Zi9DcGRLR2RiTFg3b1BjS3ZUcllRZU1GRCtsb1RlS3o5 aVFuNHZIYwpFMjFVdVdnRHU3TS92OWl4b2xzbzNpNXBtYWlQUFVYZVgzZDdmR3BXaFBwNTVVUVdp QTFaSlNyQVFnKzhrMjFDCkVjMDQweHIyWmM2UWxodnRNbHM1TERSYzNGOWhneDVzM3Bxc01weUNr TzlobnhyaVI2NFI0d3MrVnJtck41WEsKTVRXWjdmRzI3d2cvRVVtMnErODNuUU12Y3g4dGNXb3NB VlNTU0d2S21ZTzNqQVVEMHMwa2N2U2I1UEhFWHRkMgpldHBrUG1HbGUxcThmUUg3Mk5DSWk4VDgx QW9FZGxncFQyT0ZXdEZnU0NiSmI0a2xuNWlKMnhEOTZhNEE4dVN2CmZkdUVCamhoaU44ZWIwNUFD UnR3blh2dXhkS2xDWjR4Nk5jSFQyWFJqbHNGN2kxaGtmSEJWSmNLWWpYRDVrY3kKdFdDRC9aWGxB NUFRTGE3RlR4dDk4ZHByT1poWllMK2x6MW9BeTZPK05WTEV2eWN0SGt6dEZJZndUaGtaSC95bAox dEJhWC95L0xQVTc0ZHZML1JHMTZLcFMzZW94eXJwTkhIa295NVpxRWlNZkZiZklOcjk5MUV6VUY3 Sld2c1orCko2dEE4VlFtZ3JBUFpzbGE5Y2pvTGp4a3dXVmxTN3llMEo4Q3UyTnROSk85YkgvRU1a ck9pTU5XdWhJdGdhWkIKYU05c0hGaFdQaDM2RE16aW40S0c0aHFIeTR5aXFRM3FvSjhCNjh0RUYx TU52NG9Nc3JTNU5ucm84V01NSzkzSQoybTY4aWg5NkRzdmhZN2kzWFBFcAo9Y3V6TQotLS0tLUVO RCBQR1AgU0lHTkFUVVJFLS0tLS0K --===============2458716250159082205==--