Xen Update - 2006/03/23
In the meantime, I've just created the First Come/First Served Public Beta registration page – there's a link to it off the "My Account" subtab. Please register now if you're willing to enter the beta test. Note that these servers are located in Fremont. If you're on a Dallas node (hosts1-8, 27-55) and still want to participate your IP addresses will change.
I'll make a more formal and detailed Public Beta announcement within the next few days.
-Chris
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Best of luck with Xen, I'm looking forward to it.
Hal Williams
Does Xen, as used in the public beta testing, support NPTL?
I'm asking this because I just clicked on the register thing, and one of the things I would like to try is upgrading the Fedora image all the way to version 4 (or even 5).
As I understand it, Fedora Core 4 (and 5) are prepared to be run as a Xen guest system, and even include Xen guest kernels as part of the distribution.
I think this would mean that each Linode user can choose whether he wants it or not, so if you have applications that require it, it'll work.
This is hardly an authoritative answer, though; I'd be very interested in getting one, as would you.
@thoth39:
Does Xen, as used in the public beta testing, support NPTL?
Yes, it does. Xen emulates TLS/NPTL with some performance penalty. How much of one, I'm not sure, but I'd venture to guess that you'd still be way better off with Xen+NPTL than with UML (with or without NPTL).
-Chris
I've just migrated my Linode. Works for me[tm].
I'll soon make a local backup of the data in my Linode and reinstall /lib/tls to see what happens. Eventually I'll try the upgrade process to version 4, and post my results as I did with the upgrade to Fedora 3.