Hi, you do not have to change your setup. We are talking about different things. You are using ipfire as a guest which is alwas possible. Our Kernel has all needed modules enabled to run as a paravirtualized kernel.
I was talking about letting ipfire be the VM host. We still have KVM for this which is much easier to maintain. Also Dracut, which is used in the version 3.x for generating the initramdisk, does not need any parts of the xen userspace tools.
Ben
2013/2/8 R. W. Rodolico rodo@dailydata.net:
I currently use ipFire under Xen, but this sounds like a whole lot of work just for one or two Xen machines. I'm assuming it can simply be installed by booting an HVM from the ISO? If not (if there would be security holes by doing it), I can simply change to a stand alone.
Thank you very much for all the hard work.
Rod
On 02/07/2013 02:24 PM, Benjamin Schweikert wrote:
Hi, after thinking a lot about continuing xen as a hypervisor for ipfire 3.x (and after having talked to micha) I decided to not maintain Xen Hypervisor and Xen Userspace tools any more for now.
The reasons for this are:
- I will switch from xen to kvm with my systems and so I will not spend a lot of time reading xen mailing lists
- The Xen-Sourcecode is not really well "written" and documented
- This leads to a big effort in looking for patches because of the hardened system
- libvirt is not supported yet
- and finally: I don't have the time to spend several evenings bug fixing after each new released xen version.
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