Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (441 mails)

[Stephen Shaw <sshaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mar 31, 2009, at 12:49 AM, Alberto Passalacqua <alberto.passalacqua@xxxxxx 
> wrote:

> Il giorno lun, 30/03/2009 alle 16.13 -0600, Stephen Shaw ha scritto:
>
> > One of the real problems with this is that we can't get openSUSE/SLE
> > on amazon ec2, so the numbers aren't going to be fair.  You might
> > wonder why the crap Novell hasn't gotten on top of this, they  
> > have! :)
> > Unfortunately, from what I understand is that the version of xen we
> > use is too new to work on ec2.  So this is of no fault of Novell, but
> > the systems and versions that amazon is using :(
>
> How can SLE 10 Xen be newer than ubuntu's version, given that ubuntu
> announced their availability on Amazon cloud? Or did they fix if to  
> make
> it work there? Can't Novell package an older version for this specific
> target, if there is interest in being there?

It's just not that simple.  It's not just xen.  You can't just  
downgrade it like any other package.  It also involves the kernel.

Stephen

> > From the stats reported by Mark, it seems neither openSUSE nor SLE  
> > are
> there, which is quite sad ;(
>
> Regards,
> A.
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