On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 09:09:52PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > Bastian Blank wrote: > > Xen got a often used technique in the last two years. All of the large > > distributions got some sort of support for it. Debian Etch have full > > support for it. There was several requests of various people so I think > > not providing at least a minimal support in Lenny is wrong. > > > > I think option 4 would be the solution which produces the least amount > > of extra work and provides our users with support for there systems. I > > would provide the necessary packages but I want an okay for that > > solution from the security and the release team. > > Since there's now a sixth option - the forward-ported XenSource patch to > SLES's 2.6.26 - could we test this patch before we decide on a plan? > > To me using the forward-ported SLES patch for Lenny and switching to pvops > post-Lenny seems ideal. >
Yes, that would be ideal solution for users that want to have full-featured Xen in Lenny. But if you read the other messages in this thread, it won't happen I guess :( That SLES forward-port for 2.6.26 is not acceptable based on Debian kernel patch policy: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianKernelPatchAcceptanceGuidelines -- Pasi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]