On Sat, April 20, 2013 18:06, Pandu Poluan wrote:
> On Apr 19, 2013 11:14 PM, "J. Roeleveld" <jo...@antarean.org> wrote:i

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>> Pandu.
>>
>> Do you still use xend on your Xen hosts?
>> I thought that was deprecated?
>>
>
> Ah, sorry. What I meant was xstools daemon. It's necessary to properly
> monitor Linux PV guests on XenServer.
>
> It's apparently a simple shell script, which commits suicide when it can't
> determine what Linux distro it's running in. Need to add several lines of
> code within the script to enable it to recognize Gentoo and not commit
> suicide.
>
> XenCenter/CloudStack will.afterwards detect that the machine is running
> Gentoo. Won't affect anything, but better than it reporting "unknown
> Linux"
> :-)

That's useful to know. I tend to use binary distro's on the XCP-server
myself. But that is because that machine is used to quickly test large
applications where I need to ensure the presence of libraries packaged
with certain Redhat versions.

--
Joost


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