Re: Dell 2900, good hardware for XEN/NetBSD?

[Mike Bowie <mbowie%buzmo.com@localhost>]

Fredrik Pettai wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Until today, we have been running XEN/NetBSD on older Dell 2950 for some 
> time now, and that has been working quite well. But now it's time to 
> upgrade, and we are thinking of buying new hardware for running even 
> more virtual servers.
>
> So I'm wondering if anybody have any good or bad experience running 
> XEN/NetBSD on the bigger Dell 2900 servers, that they would like to 
> share? :-)
>
> TIA,
> /P

Hi Fredrik,

I'm running a NetBSD Xen test host on a Dell PE 1950-III with some 
success.  NetBSD4's mfi driver lacks support for the PERC/6i RAID 
controller and the bnx driver also needs a newer build.

I've been running 4.99.72 for a month or so now and although dom0 has so 
far needed more RAM than I'd like, I believe some of the issues with the 
bnx driver may have been resolved recently, so I need to have another 
round of testing with it.

HTH,

Mike.