Comments on: XCP 1.1 has landed! http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2011/10/12/xcp-1-1-final-release/ Community Blog Mon, 13 May 2013 10:17:52 +0000 hourly 1 By: lexalt http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2011/10/12/xcp-1-1-final-release/comment-page-1/#comment-1965 lexalt Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:24:16 +0000 http://blog.xen.org/?p=3334#comment-1965 Mike, I just noticed that the installation instructions for Kronos were updated on December 16th. Hopefully this means that a production version of Kronos is around the corner. Yippee! Just to clarify and/or emphasize a point that I tried to make previously... Even though I eagerly anticipate the arrival of a production version of Kronos as a solution for those of us who are unable to install XCP due to a hardware incompatibility, I would still greatly prefer to be able to install XCP directly on my current hardware. And so I still very much hope that XCP will extend its compatibility to a larger pool of hardware. I suspect that CentOS 6.x offers better hardware support than does CentOS 5.x. For example, at least for my server, CentOS 6.1 recognizes my Atheros NIC out of the box, whereas CentOS 5.6 doesn't. (I haven't tried CentOS 5.7.) So even if Fedora will never serve as Dom0 for XCP, then I hope you'll t least use CentOS 6.x as the Dom0 for XCP as soon as possible. Being that XCP will serve as the "development branch" of XenServer, is a move toward using CentOS 6.x as the Dom0 a near-term priority for XCP? Any chance CentOS 6.x will serve as the Dom0 in the forthcoming XCP 1.5? Mike,

I just noticed that the installation instructions for Kronos were updated on December 16th. Hopefully this means that a production version of Kronos is around the corner. Yippee!

Just to clarify and/or emphasize a point that I tried to make previously…

Even though I eagerly anticipate the arrival of a production version of Kronos as a solution for those of us who are unable to install XCP due to a hardware incompatibility, I would still greatly prefer to be able to install XCP directly on my current hardware. And so I still very much hope that XCP will extend its compatibility to a larger pool of hardware.

I suspect that CentOS 6.x offers better hardware support than does CentOS 5.x. For example, at least for my server, CentOS 6.1 recognizes my Atheros NIC out of the box, whereas CentOS 5.6 doesn’t. (I haven’t tried CentOS 5.7.) So even if Fedora will never serve as Dom0 for XCP, then I hope you’ll t least use CentOS 6.x as the Dom0 for XCP as soon as possible.

Being that XCP will serve as the “development branch” of XenServer, is a move toward using CentOS 6.x as the Dom0 a near-term priority for XCP? Any chance CentOS 6.x will serve as the Dom0 in the forthcoming XCP 1.5?

]]> By: lexalt http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2011/10/12/xcp-1-1-final-release/comment-page-1/#comment-1959 lexalt Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:59:50 +0000 http://blog.xen.org/?p=3334#comment-1959 Hi Mike, Thanks much for the reply. Good to hear that XCP will eventually become XenServer’s development branch. Hopefully, a result of that branch will be better hardware compatibility. For me, the ideal situation would be for XenServer and/or XPC to eventually recognize my Atheros NIC out of the box, as Fedora 16 and Ubuntu 11.10 currently do. But yep, in the near term, Project Kronos seems like my best bet. And that's why I'm eagerly anticipating its release on whatever platform, Debian, Ubuntu or Fedora, that is most expedient. :-) Hi Mike,

Thanks much for the reply. Good to hear that XCP will eventually become XenServer’s development branch. Hopefully, a result of that branch will be better hardware compatibility. For me, the ideal situation would be for XenServer and/or XPC to eventually recognize my Atheros NIC out of the box, as Fedora 16 and Ubuntu 11.10 currently do.

But yep, in the near term, Project Kronos seems like my best bet. And that’s why I’m eagerly anticipating its release on whatever platform, Debian, Ubuntu or Fedora, that is most expedient. :-)

]]> By: Mike McClurg http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2011/10/12/xcp-1-1-final-release/comment-page-1/#comment-1956 Mike McClurg Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:14:09 +0000 http://blog.xen.org/?p=3334#comment-1956 We currently don't have any plans to change XCP's dom0 to Fedora, or any other distro. By their nature, XCP and XenServer will always be tightly linked -- and we think this is a good thing. In the future (early to mid 2012), XCP will start offering development previews of future releases of XCP (and XenServer), and truly become XenServer's "development branch". Project Kronos aims to fill the need that you've expressed, by porting the XCP toolstack to Debian and Ubuntu. These were our first choice OSs, but we'd like to port XCP to other distros as well, including Fedora. If anyone is offering to help, please feel free to contact the xen-api@lists.xensource.com mailing list to start the discussion. We currently don’t have any plans to change XCP’s dom0 to Fedora, or any other distro. By their nature, XCP and XenServer will always be tightly linked — and we think this is a good thing. In the future (early to mid 2012), XCP will start offering development previews of future releases of XCP (and XenServer), and truly become XenServer’s “development branch”.

Project Kronos aims to fill the need that you’ve expressed, by porting the XCP toolstack to Debian and Ubuntu. These were our first choice OSs, but we’d like to port XCP to other distros as well, including Fedora. If anyone is offering to help, please feel free to contact the xen-api@lists.xensource.com mailing list to start the discussion.

]]> By: lexalt http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2011/10/12/xcp-1-1-final-release/comment-page-1/#comment-1953 lexalt Mon, 12 Dec 2011 09:21:34 +0000 http://blog.xen.org/?p=3334#comment-1953 Nether XCP 1,1 nor Citrix XenServer 6.0 can be installed my home test server without undue effort because neither includes driver support for my server's Atheros NIC. CentOS 5.6 also seems to lack out-of-box support for my server's Atheros NIC, which probably explains why XCP lack of support. On the other hand, Fedora 16 runs great on my server and, owing to its 3.1 kernel, seems to play well with Xen 4.1. With the above in mind... I hope that future editions of XCP will be based Fedora instead than CentOS. I mean, what’s the point of offering a repackaged XenServer? Rather than just clone XenServer, XCP should be the cutting edge alternative, much like Fedora is the cutting edge alternative to RHEL. Nether XCP 1,1 nor Citrix XenServer 6.0 can be installed my home test server without undue effort because neither includes driver support for my server’s Atheros NIC. CentOS 5.6 also seems to lack out-of-box support for my server’s Atheros NIC, which probably explains why XCP lack of support. On the other hand, Fedora 16 runs great on my server and, owing to its 3.1 kernel, seems to play well with Xen 4.1.

With the above in mind…

I hope that future editions of XCP will be based Fedora instead than CentOS. I mean, what’s the point of offering a repackaged XenServer? Rather than just clone XenServer, XCP should be the cutting edge alternative, much like Fedora is the cutting edge alternative to RHEL.

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