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

[Fredrik Pettai <pettai%nordu.net@localhost>]

On Oct 7, 2008, at 12:36 AM, Mike Bowie wrote:

> 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 believe I saw that the PERC/6i controller support was submitted to  
current in the early 2008.

> 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.