On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 01:34:24PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 07:01:59AM +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 04:53:56PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > There was a thread here a little while back about the status of Xen in > > > future Debian releases. It left me rather confused, and I'm hoping to > > > find some answers (which I will then happily document in the wiki). > > > > > > According to http://wiki.debian.org/SystemVirtualization : > > > > > > "Qemu and KVM - Mostly used on Desktops/Laptops" > > > > > Yes - but also the only game in town for cross platform emulation. > > > > KVM is shaping up well and appears to be very well supported by Red Hat. > > > > > "VirtualBox - Mostly used on Desktops/Laptops" > > > > Who knows what will happen to this now that Oracle own it? It's possible > > it will be merged in one of their other products like Virtual Iron. > > > > > > > > "Xen - Provides para-virtualization and full-virtualization. Mostly used > > > on servers. Will be abandoned after squeeze." > > > > > > > I think that the problem here is that Xen isn't mainstream in the > > kernel. It takes a long time for a Xen-ified kernel to come out and any > > distribution supporting it has to carry a heavy patch burden. Xen > > doesn't keep anywhere current in terms of kernel - if we release Squeeze > > this year with kernel 2.6.3*, Debian will have to maintain all the patches > > / "forward port" them to 2.6.32 or 2.6.33 as was done with 2.6.2*. > > > > Xen folks are creating 'xen/stable' branch for the pv_ops dom0 kernel, > which is tracking the long-term supported 2.6.32 kernel, which Squeeze > will ship. Currently it's at 2.6.32.9. > > So Xen dom0 support for Squeeze shouldn't be as problematic as the > Lenny 2.6.26 kernel was. (no other distro shipped 2.6.26 and it was > not a long-term maintained kernel). > > Now it would be a good time for everyone to test and report any problems > found from the pvops dom0 kernel; it's still a WIP (Work In Progress), > and requires both the success and problem reports. >
Latest 'status report' of Xen pvops dom0 kernel git trees here: http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-03/msg00162.html There's "xen/stable-2.6.32.x" branch now. -- Pasi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100304090557.gr2...@reaktio.net