[Lustre-discuss] Lustre and Xen

Robert Read rread at sun.com
Mon Oct 6 09:27:11 PDT 2008


On Oct 4, 2008, at 08:33 , Daniel Ferber wrote:

>
> I have two questions:
>
> 1. On the OSS/OST side, can one run Lustre as a server on a system  
> running a Xen kernel?
>
> 2. Conversely: is the lustre client compatible with Xen kernel  
> machines?


The answer to both questions is yes - I routinely test Lustre  servers  
and clients on Xen using a RHEL 5 kernel with our patches and  
configured as a Xen guest. I have not tried a patchless client on a  
RHEL 5 Xen kernel yet, but I would expect that to work if you built  
our modules for it.

robert



>
>
> Thanks much,
> Dan
>
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