Re: [Xen-users] Re: [Xen-devel] State of Xen in upstream Linux

2008-08-01 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 10:54:38AM -0700, Grant McWilliams wrote: Fedora 9's kernel-xen package has been based on the mainline kernel from the outset, but it is still packaged as a separate kernel. kernel-xen has been dropped from rawhide (what will become Fedora 10), and all Xen

Re: [Xen-users] Re: [Xen-devel] State of Xen in upstream Linux

2008-07-31 Thread Grant McWilliams
Fedora 9's kernel-xen package has been based on the mainline kernel from the outset, but it is still packaged as a separate kernel. kernel-xen has been dropped from rawhide (what will become Fedora 10), and all Xen support - both 32 and 64 bit - has been rolled into the main kernel

Re: [Xen-users] Re: [Xen-devel] State of Xen in upstream Linux

2008-07-31 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Alexey Eremenko wrote: Jeremy: Mr. Grant speaking about the future where Linux (2.6.28?) mainline kernel will support Xen Dom0, not kernel 2.6.27, which only improves Xen DomU. And I agree with Grant, that if Linux mainline will have Dom0 included, that may cause problems for all kinds of

Re: [Xen-users] Re: [Xen-devel] State of Xen in upstream Linux

2008-07-31 Thread Dr. David Alan Gilbert
* Jeremy Fitzhardinge ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Grant McWilliams wrote: snip Does this mean in the future all Fedora kernels will be Xen kernels? Is this wise? If I try to run VirtualBox on a Xen kernel the machine will reboot. If the Vbox module is loaded at runtime it will reboot

Re: [Xen-users] Re: [Xen-devel] State of Xen in upstream Linux

2008-07-31 Thread Grant McWilliams
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Grant McWilliams wrote: Vbox OSE has full source available. I was working on a contract for a corporation and was in the stage of deciding which virtualization platform to run and installed Vbox in a Xen system

Re: [Xen-users] Re: [Xen-devel] State of Xen in upstream Linux

2008-07-31 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Grant McWilliams wrote: I wasn't really trying to run VBox in the dom0. I'd been running the Xen kernel so long that I'd forgotten which kernel I was on. Like I said when you start VMware the guest OS just doesn't run which gives you a second to ponder why. VBox uses VT/SVM if you check a box