On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 06:05:14PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > I think the first question to resolve is to establish that it *is* > > supported...
> I think that the prudent thing for Debian to do is to continue to > support the older kernel if that is the only way to ensure Xen support > for the users. I personally have a few servers running Xen that run > stable. If the support for Xen in a stable release is not suitable, I > would have to consider migrating those servers to some other distro. I > would really hate to have to do that. The distro used on dom0 is pretty uninteresting, given that part of the point of having Xen-style virtualization for servers is to a) be able to run different OSes in different guests, and b) not to run services in dom0.[1] If the Debian security team is unwilling or unable to provide support for a 2.6.18 kernel over the lifetime of lenny, I'm happy to see us let dom0 be Somebody Else's Problem. I'm certainly happier with that than having us /claim/ to support 2.6.18, have users rely on that claim, and then not be able to deliver. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1] I can sympathize with users who want to run Xen on systems for virtualization purposes while also being able to run a full desktop environment in dom0 where hardware is more accessible; but I think this is probably a fairly small group of people still given the hardware requirements, and in any case I don't think that's a use case that should compel us to overextend ourselves. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]