Ian Campbell schreef: > On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 21:53 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: >> Hi, >> >> AFAIK, the status of Xen in lenny is currently the following: >> - no dom0 kernel >> - domU kernel only for i386 (no domU kernel for amd64) >> >> I was told (I don't remember where) that this is because the vanilla >> kernel only supports domU for i386, and has no dom0 support, so distros >> have to port the patches to their kernels (please correct me if I'm >> wrong). > > That is correct. > > The upstream -tip tree currently has some 64 bit domU patches queued > (probably for 2.6.27). They are rather new and far reaching since they > make some some nice infrastructure cleanups along the way etc. There's a > rather slim chance they might make it in for Lenny but given their young > age I'm not quite happy to say we could support a kernel with them for > the lifetime of Lenny. > > dom0 support is being worked on by Fedora people (I think) but there are > no patches upstream yet. > >> However: >> - etch shipped with dom0 and domU kernels on i386 and amd64 >> - all major distros shipped with "full" Xen support > > FWIW fc9 didn't ship with dom0 support -- that is targeted for fc10. > For now I think they recommend you stick with fc8 for dom0. > > I think we will be in a similar situation -- recommending sticking with > Etch for dom0 (or at least the Etch kernel, which I run on sid for my > Xen uses just fine) is probably the best we can do at the moment. > >> What are the plans for Xen for lenny? Is this situation likely to change >> before the release? > > Without a massive injection of manpower (Debian side or upstream) I > don't see much changing. I've heard that maybe a Lenny + 1/2 kernel > might be able to add the features (64bit + dom0) which are missed this > time around if they are available upstream, but that isn't my call to > make.
Some Fedora-links about Xen: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/XenPvopsDom0 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/XenPvops http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2008-March/msg00013.html http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2008-March/thread.html http://git.et.redhat.com/?p=xen-pvops-64.git http://git.et.redhat.com/?p=linux-2.6-fedora-pvops.git;a=summary http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/rpms/kernel-xen-2.6/devel/ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/10/Schedule Eventually we could support the Etch-kernel in Lenny until there is another solution? Maybe we could make some publicity about this situation in Debian Project News. Maybe there is someone who can help. http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/Issues/Current With regards, Paul van der Vlis. -- http://www.vandervlis.nl/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]