[Fedora-xen] Running Xen on low spec single CPU

[Adrian Chadd]

On Mon, Feb 26, 2007, Adrian Revill wrote:
> I know a lot of people just see Xen as a method to use over spec'd boxes 
> more efficiently, but im interested in using its virtulisation 
> capabilities on low  spec systems.
> Has any one had any luck with getting a DomU running on a single CPU.
> 
> I seem to get stuck during the install, as far as i can see it seems 
> that the DomU is not being allocated CPU time.
> 
> Using Fedora 6, i can get through the anaconda stage in about 1/2 hr but 
> when the X window starts the CPU use drops to near 0% and i never get 
> past a black screen with the X cursor.

I have no trouble with Xen on single CPU athlon machines running >10 DomU's.
I don't run X or a framebuffer console. And my IO load is light.



Adrian