So what's the deal with Xen?

[Tom Horsley]

On Tue, 19 May 2009 12:38:06 -0500
dingleberry wrote:

> > I used debian and built xen from the xen source repo.
> > I found that a distro based on a 2.6.18 kernel worked much better
> > than any of the "supported" versions of xen in fedora,
> > opensuse, etc. where xen patches had been wedged into newer
> > kernels.
> >
> >     
> What distro was that?

Back when I did it, I used debian40r2 (which I don't think is
the latest any longer). I forget which cute name went with
it (etch maybe?).

It did take about 50 iterations to build, find missing
requirement, install them, build again, etc, but I eventually
made it out the other side :-).