<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div>On Oct 4, 2008, at 08:33 , Daniel Ferber wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div> <font face="Comic Sans MS, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:14.0px"><br> I have two questions:<br> <br> 1. <font color="#1E487C">On the OSS/OST side, can one run Lustre as a server on a system running a Xen kernel?<br> <br> </font>2. <font color="#1E487C">Conversely: is the lustre client compatible with Xen kernel machines?</font></span></font></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>robert</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><font face="Comic Sans MS, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:14.0px"><font color="#1E487C"><br> </font><br> Thanks much,<br> Dan<br> <br> <br> </span></font><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:12.0px">-- <br> Dan Ferber, <font color="#0000FE"><u><a href="mailto:Daniel.Ferber@Sun.com">Daniel.Ferber@Sun.com</a><br> </u></font>+1 612-486-5167 (Office)<br> +1 651-356-9481 (Cell<br> x29704 (Sun Internal)<br> </span></font><span style="font-size:12.0px"><font face="Comic Sans MS, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><br> </font></span></font><font face="Comic Sans MS, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:14.0px"><br> </span></font> </div> _______________________________________________<br>Lustre-discuss mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org">Lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org</a><br>http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>