[ale] Citrix Xen

[Chuck Payne]

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Brian MacLeod <nym.bnm at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 7/13/12 10:40 AM, Chuck Payne wrote:
>> Guys,
>>
>> Anyone using Citirix Xen? I just started a new job and they are
>> using it as their Virtual Server, but I am seeing a lot of issues,
>> before I go and recommend a change, I like to hear some feed back,
>> but Pro and Con. I am a bit basis as I have use VMWare ESXi and
>> KVM.
>>
>> Just so note some of the issues we had so far, lots of kernel
>> panics with NFS. Virtual Machines being rebuild because of issues
>> with the vm themselves, such as drives going bad.  Not being able
>> to reboot
>>
>
>
> Kernel panics with NFS? That may or may not be Xen issues.  These
> wouldn't by chance be RHEL/CentOS 5 boxes using (or trying to use)
> NFS4 would they?
>
> (and for all the questions that will cause)
>
> If so, yeah...don't do that.  Especially NFS root filesystems.
>
> Brian
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Well we are doing snapshots, we think that might be related to the
kernel panic on NFS.  The other issue might be related to EXT4 and
Xen.

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