@Markus: Please make sure that you always reply to the list as well.
I am not entirely sure why this post is so broken, but one of the reason is that you linked some images from other posts. I recovered some of them and will send the privately to you to avoid too much traffic on the list. Maybe you can still use them.
-Michael
On Wed, 2015-02-18 at 08:46 +0100, Markus Helmke wrote:
First Draft was to write it down in the Forum
http://forum.ipfire.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=10888
Viele Grüße,
Markus Helmke
Mail: markus@helmke.at mailto:markus@helmke.at
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Von:Michael Tremer michael.tremer@ipfire.org Gesendet: Die 17 Februar 2015 17:47 An: Markus Helmke markus@helmkeweb.de CC: R. W. Rodolico rodo@dailydata.net; documentation@lists.ipfire.org Betreff: Re: AW: Xen Documentation
Hi,
about which page are you talking? I could not find the right one I think.
-Michael
On Tue, 2015-02-17 at 17:30 +0100, Markus Helmke wrote:
My Dokumentation was made for the actual Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS version.
There where some changes in order to the implemented XEN-Version. The letest Debian stable (wheezy) is layouted with XEN 4.0 or 4.1 (im not shure). In Ubuntu some of the latest packet-changes was to implement the new XEN 4.4 The default stack is now xl (4.0 was xm) so there are some changes in the configs. Now it is possible to use the configfiles in the /etc/default section to start the xen-kernel or to implement boot-parameters.
But everything from the new Xen-Version is explained in my doku. Since the forum was replaced to the new forum-software the links to images are lost.
So if I can do somthing Or write something new - I can do that. But the challenge to write that down in english is to big for me. It will takes to much time for me. But perhaps there will be found someone else how can translate that.
Viele Grüße,
Markus Helmke
Mail: markus@helmke.at mailto:markus@helmke.at
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Von:Michael Tremer michael.tremer@ipfire.org Gesendet: Die 17 Februar 2015 17:06 An: R. W. Rodolico rodo@dailydata.net CC: documentation@lists.ipfire.org Betreff: Re: Xen Documentation
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 Some of them are based on outdated versions of Debian.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-warni... 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! ;)
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