[Nix-dev] xen host

[Marco Maggesi]

Ok, thank you for your clarification.
I will make an attempt to get xen working with 3.x.x kernels on nixos.
M.

2012/5/17 Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra at logicblox.com>:
> Hi,
>
> On 17/05/12 10:10, Marco Maggesi wrote:
>
>> My understanding was that Xen were actively employed by the Xen
>> developers, at least at a give time in the past
>> Is it still true?
>
> I guess you mean "by the NixOS developers". We did run a Xen machine until
> recently ("mrhankey" if you're looking for the config).  However, I stopped
> using Xen because libvirt + QEMU/KVM is, IMHO, simpler and works just as well.
> ("Simpler" because a KVM VM is just a normal user process, and you don't need to
> run a non-default kernel on the host.)  Example machine:
>
>  https://nixos.org/repos/nix/configurations/trunk/tud/stan.nix
>
> It would be great to have Xen working again, though.  From what I understand,
> Linux 3.0 and higher can run as Dom0, so you can probably get rid of the
> 2.6.32-xen kernel.  The kernel will probably need some configuration options to
> enable Dom0 support though.