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TCL as Xen Dom0?
TheNewbie:
As the title states, I'd like to know if anybody has had success with using tinycore/microcore as the dom0 for Xen, and, if so, their experience with it. If not, then it'd be great if somebody could help me a little bit with installing (if that's the right word) TC/MC as dom0:
- Do I need to remaster TC/MC with a new kernel to support a Xen installation?
- Do I have to compile Xen from source and convert it to tcz or some such, or is there a more preferable method to "install" Xen?
- Assuming Xen can be installed properly, would it be required to remaster TC/MC with Xen installed to use it as dom0 (considering that the virtualization is supposedly kernel-level)?
Sorry if my questions are idiotic and this has been answered somewhere else >.<
Also, if anybody knows a smaller, more convenient alternative is available... (type-1 hypervisor, I find type-2 is too laggy and is too poor of a solution to support Windows and various games/utilities)
curaga:
--- Quote ---- Do I need to remaster TC/MC with a new kernel to support a Xen installation?
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Yes. Xen and 486 support are mutually exclusive.
There are some threads on running TC as a Xen guest, but I don't remember if any were as a host.
I don't know if gaming under virtualization is a good idea no matter the system used, there's always overhead.
danielibarnes:
--- Quote from: TheNewbie on July 12, 2011, 04:39:16 AM ---I'd like to know if anybody has had success with using tinycore/microcore as the dom0 for Xen
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Linux as a dom0 was only supported as of 2.6.37 in January (TC 3.x is 2.6.33.3). The kernel backends were not added until 3.0. Short answer: you can't do it yet, but it should be possible to remaster TC 4.0 to do it.
curaga:
TC is fairly kernel agnostic, I've run 3.x with anything from .30 to .37. Sub-.33 need an udev rule added, but upwards upgrades should be fairly easy.
TheNewbie:
--- Quote from: curaga on July 12, 2011, 06:03:47 AM ---I don't know if gaming under virtualization is a good idea no matter the system used, there's always overhead.
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Well, it's not just the overhead (although type-1 hypervisors are supposedly much faster too), there's a lack of decent driver support and such for guest OS's to use a GFX card's 3D acceleration, etc.
The wiki has a short guide on remastering (is that the right word? >.>) TC with a new kernel, but what are the TC kernel patches?
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