Xen and FC5 on PE2950

[John_Hull at Dell.com]

The workaround doesn't disable IPMI for the entire system; it just disables it in the integrated NIC firmware for the NIC. Full details of the workaround can be found here: http://wiki.ncsa.uiuc.edu/wiki/Dell_PE1950_NIC_Firmware_Workaround

A fixed NIC firmware should be available sometime next year (I don't know the exact date, but it should be early). 


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Subject: Re: Xen and FC5 on PE2950
 
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 03:15:01PM +0100, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
> I'm still hoping to get Xen working on PE2950 machines with FC5.  I
> really want to move our code repositories inside a virtual machine.
> 
> Previous posts on this subject have mentioned a temporary workaround
> that requires physical access to the machine and disables IPMI
> completely, both of which are pretty big drawbacks for me.
> 
> Someone from Dell said that this would be fixed in a better way by Q4.
> 
> Is there any known good solution available yet that doesn't disable IPMI
> and would allow me to roll out or vm's ?

Yes, it would be great to have a solution for this.  I (not having done
my research well) just ordered a trio of 2950s for the express purpose
of running Xen on them.  If there is no solution other than disabling
IPMI, I'd like to know so I can cancel the order and investigate other
options.

-jkl

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