https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=851338
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=851338#c47
--- Comment #47 from Nick Couchman
Gentlemen,
Not really sure why so much fuzz about recompiling kernel - this is a 30 minutes job.
Scale? Management? Future versions? Those things come to mind off the top of my head. Sure, recompiling with one option different is a pretty trivial task. Doing it for several hundred virtual machines across different XenServer pools becomes less trivial. Doing that every time the kernel package gets upgraded (and remembering that it has to be done after you run that kernel update but before you reboot those VMs) is now a significant challenge. One of the reasons we like openSuSE and use it as one of our standard distributions is because things just work - it isn't that we don't like to tinker, or don't know how to, it's that we don't always have the time to.
In either case, I've tried putting together a wiki page to help with recompiling kernel and other nifty tricks: https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:How_to_install_openSUSE_13.1_as_PV_guest_on_XenS...
This is my first attempt to write a public wiki page, so any feedback is more than welcome.
HTH
Thanks for the info...maybe I'll add my steps for installing EC2 kernel and using that for those who are interested. Maybe we could also get a kernel-xen-compat package created in one of the community repos and maintain backward compatibility from there, that way people could just add that repo and install that package. Then SuSE could continue to push the main kernel-xen package forward in terms of compatibility, but those of us who require running it on some of the hosts that take a little longer to catch up would still have options. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.