[one-users] platform recommendation

[christopher barry]

On Fri, 2012-08-10 at 22:29 +0200, Hendrik Wißmann wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> my first opennebula installation on Centos-6 (and KVM) had the
> disadvantage, that no data-volumes could be mounted. The second
> try was a combination of debian and XEN with the result, that no
> vm's could be started. What about ubuntu 12.0.4 LTS and XEN?
> Does anybody have some experience running OpenNebula on ubuntu
> and XEN as a host?
> 
> Is there a platform recommendation, which I haven't found on project
> websites. The ubuntu official documentation describes an opennebula
> installation using KVM as a hypervisor. Which is the best platform to
> choose? Or is there a way to mount additional persistent data-volumes
> if KVM is used?
> 

The data volume limit may actually be an IDE bus limit. Use SCSI, or
ideally virtio instead in your VM configurations.

I don't think the issue is so much your choice of distro, but is likely
just a configuration issue. You should use the distro you're most
comfortable with.

Regards,
-C