[Novalug] Xen

[gregory pryzby]

On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 10:39:08AM -0500, Dan Arico wrote:
> I've run into an interesting problem. I have an old application that runs 
> just fine on Suse 8.0, but not on anything after that. Can I use Xen to 
> run a virtual machine for this application?

If you have hardware that does virtualization, yes. Otherwise no
because the changes required for paravirtualization have not been back
ported to the 2.4 kernel. OR THAT IS WHAT I BELIEVE.

> The basic problem is the application calls the gcc compiler, but there 
> were changes made after Suse 8.0 that cause it to crash. Is there 
> another way around this?

Is it open source? If so, I can and will look at it.

if not, call the vendor and demand support. 

Or find/write/contract a new solution.

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