[sles-beta] Support status for Citrix XenServer?

[Darren Thompson]

Allen

That is an odd/interesting result since I have been testing SLES12B7+ on
it's included XEN hypervisor and it works fine, so it's not an intrinsic
problem with running under a XEN hypervisor.

Darren


On 26 June 2014 06:47, Beddingfield, Allen <allen at ua.edu> wrote:

> Will SLES 12 be supported by SUSE as a guest operating system on Citrix
> XenServer?  SLES 11 works beautifully.  I have not been able to get a
> working installation of any of the betas on there using a SLES template. If
> I use the "other install media" template, I can get a functioning HVM
> install, but if I use one of the proper templates for paravirtualization, I
> cannot get a working install.  Obviously, the HVM is an inefficient
> virtualization method on Xen, and is not recommended.
>
> So my questions are:
> 1.  Will XenServer be supported, either officially or best-effort?
> 2.  Has any effort been put into testing SLES 12 as a XenServer guest?
> 3.  Has anyone gotten it to work as a paravirtualized guest? (I can make
> it work HVM)
>
> I have a full multi-node XenServer configuration running 6.2.x, and would
> be glad to offer whatever assistance is needed with testing/troubleshooting
> this.
>
> Thanks.
> Allen B.
>
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> Systems Engineer
> The University of Alabama
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