great big gobs of RAM and piles of cores to boot

[Eric Stein]

Just an FYI, I've experienced some unpleasant problems with local serial
consoles breaking with Ubuntu Hardy under Xen 3.2 (xen-tools &
debootstrap).  It may have a lot to do with the Debian Lenny host system
I was using though.  If it's certified by Canonical and you can get
support you should be fine on the distro front.  I think your most
worrying concern should be the xen network bridges.

Eric

Alan Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Eric Stein <toba at des.truct.org
> <mailto:toba at des.truct.org>> wrote:
>
>     What is Unbuntu Hardy server going to be running as?  Dom0 or DomU?
>     Both?  
>
>
> Both.  Probably one or 2 Jaunty guests as well.
>  
>
>     If DomU, how are you planning to bootstrap?  
>
>
> I forget the default in Ubuntu xen-tools, but dbootstrap perhaps?  I
> typically make some template images and copy them around, editing
> config, so I forget the boot strap options after a bit.
>  
>
>     What CPUs are you racking?
>
>
> By "racking" you mean "putting in the rack"?  If so, these are
> Opterons.  8000 series in the 685s and 2435s in the 465s, if I get any
> of those.
>
> -- 
> Alan Johnson
> alan at datdec.com <mailto:alan at datdec.com>