On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 13:27 +0530, Rajesh Rajani wrote:
Having a dual core system, I obviously wanted to use virtualization so I opted for the virtualization package while customizing my install. The install proceeded normally and within 30-40 mins I had an installed Fedora Core 6 system with Xen virtualization. Unfortunately it was horribly unstable. Being a new system, I didn't know if the issue was with my hardware or software so I reinstalled Fedora (both i386 and x86_64) multiple times with various combinations of bios settings, installation options, etc. Nothing worked. The system would lock and crash within 10 mins of use.
Yesterday I installed a bare minimum Fedora Core 6 x86_64 option again with no virtualization. Lo and behold, it worked beautifully. No crashes, very stable with the 2.6.18 kernel.
Hi, I too have written a report on a similar hardware. Except I had a PATA drive instead of a SATA. I have a PATA DVD RW too. Anyway, I have the i386 install. It is stable. No issues till now. I have Xen virtualization enabled as well. The only difference between our installation methods is I guess I installed the distro without Xen virtualization and then used the system-config-packages to add Xen and the Xen kernel. The system was stable all throughout. 2.6.18-SMP kernel updated to 2.6.19-SMP and 2.6.18-Xen updated to 2.6.19-Xen.