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ianneub
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 1:11 am 
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Why does Ubuntu 9.10 require the paravirt kernel on linodes? Is that unique to Linode? Or something new with karmic?
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pclissold
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I don't think Karmic actually requires paravirt, it's just that the version of udev that Karmic uses doesn't support older kernels.

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pclissold wrote:
I don't think Karmic actually requires paravirt, it's just that the version of udev that Karmic uses doesn't support older kernels.

Yes. Same with Arch.

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Hello,

I agreed and I prefer paravirtualization.

See the definition at: http://staging.xen.org/about/paravirtualization.html

So, paravirtualization brings better performance to VM's and the hypervisor is impervious to driver failure.


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Michael-Martin
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dkobozev wrote:
I also just upgraded to 9.10 (from 8.10). I did not switch to Paravirt kernel before upgrade and couldn't log in via SSH after system restart. After I shut down my linode and switched to Paravirt the system went back up.

So it seems like nothing scary will happen if you forget to switch to Paravirt kernel before do-release-upgrade.


Same here. Stressful few minutes, and then this thread solved it all. Doesn't seem to be any issues now I've swapped to Paravirt! :)
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