Xen and FC5 on PE2950

[Thomas_Chenault at Dell.com]

Note also that both LOMs on the 9th generation servers are capable of
serving as IPMI-over-LAN interfaces. With some care, it should be
possible to disable the management firmware on the interface that will
be used by the Xen unprivileged domains and leave the management
firmware enabled on the other. This approach should allow IPMI-over-LAN
and Xen to coexist in a state of relative peace until a complete
solution becomes available. 


Thomas

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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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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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