[nylug-talk] After meeting tonight, anyone want to discuss XEN stuff? (Also a bunch of misc thoughts and notes).

[Justin Lintz]

Just a note that synergy under Hardy has this strange bug that causes
your mouse and keyboard tp lock up about every 30 seconds and than
continues.  Very very annoying , unfortunately I cant link to the
launchpad bug since im writing this from the train ;).

I too ran into nvidia properitety driver issue when I first tried xen
about a year ago.  Currently im using virtualbox at home and it works
great.  I would like to experiment with xen some more but dont have
any other machines besides my desktop that is powerful enough to run
it on.

On 3/26/08, Chris Knadle <Chris.Knadle at coredump.us> wrote:
> Hey, Brian.
>
>    Just talking about a couple of specific bullet points some.
>
> On Wednesday 26 March 2008, Brian Gupta wrote:
> > 6) Hardy Heron 8.04 beta is pretty slick. Wait for Automatix support
> > before upgrading. Envy support is there, assuming you don't need XEN
> > support. (Anyone know if closed ATI drivers work on a XEN kernel).
>
>    Last I recall, Automatix installed a bunch of software programs without
> using the package management tools.  If that's still how Automatix works
> then
> I recommend avoiding using it.  From what I see inside of the Automatix .deb
> package, it contains a bunch of Python programs to do the real work, and the
> control information doesn't look promising, because it mostly depends on
> python programs rather than the multimedia packages.  :-/  User beware.
>
> > 9) SE-Linux is an annoyance when you are learning new technologies.
>
>    Likewise Ubuntu's use of AppArmor can occasionally have a similar effect.
>
> The fact that AppArmor isn't in the Linux tree is troublesome because if you
> want to run a custom-compiled kernel it means patching.  The kernel as
> shipped from Ubuntu has certain config options that don't have corresponding
> kconfig options, so they drop out when using menuconfig, xconfig, etc...
> including the config option for AppArmor.  Ugh.
>
> > 18) PCI-Express is very different than PCI-X and PCI. PCI Express is
> > the future of most PC based expansion card technologies. (And there
> > are different kinds of PCI-Express cards x1 being the most common...
> > The various PCI technologies is definitely a worthy topic of
> > discussion.). Please excuse me for stating the obvious, but my last
> > couple rounds of personal tech buying have been laptops, it's been
> > about over 6 years since I built or bought my last "desktop".
>
>    And now some laptops have mini PCI-e cards, too, along with mini PCI.  I
> consider that a good thing, since it allows for having discrete components
> instead of everything being unchangable.
>
>    -- Chris
>
> --
>
> Chris Knadle
> Chris.Knadle at coredump.us
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- Justin Lintz