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From: "ron minnich" <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: asenchi@asenchi.com,
	"Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Xen Installation
Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 21:22:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <13426df10805192122j3877dfbdyc507f15571cc89f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8d9c091a0805192056q2df11104k133c084c6ed00a2e@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Curt Micol <asenchi@gmail.com> wrote:

> Could you explain what 'turned bad' and why you no longer prefer xen?
> This is just for my own curiosity, I'd like to hear your opinion.
> I'll also begin looking through the archives to see if I missed
> something there.
>

mainly, the over-use of python where C would do, with the concomitant
mess of weird errors and untraceable failures. The xenstore was also a
disaster, a half-way file system that never quite worked to this day.
Add in XML-RPC, in python yet, and you have a gooey stew of obscure
and hard to fix errors.

We did a small distro with xen, and were glad to move to lguest
instead. Much, much easier.

Kind of sad, as I actually really like the Xen guys, but things just
didn't go very well after v2.

ron



  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-20  4:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-20  2:01 Jonny Morrill
2008-05-20  3:22 ` ron minnich
2008-05-20  3:56   ` Curt Micol
2008-05-20  4:22     ` ron minnich [this message]
2008-05-20  6:07       ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2008-05-21  0:44 Jonny Morrill

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