Hello, In order to get Xen working really well for servers in the hardy release. I wish to solicit opinions, in an effort to improve the spec that I'm in the middle of writing:
1. Kernel side Since 2.6.23 will have xen paravirt-ops (domU) we should use that right? However, it does not have the full features that users will want. No HVM console and no Windows XP guests. Its just basic basic domU support. So thats not really an option in my opinion. In gutsy, we decided to switch to opensuse dom0 kernel, however this caused more problems than what it was worth. So Im using fedora as a base this time. I have already started to port their kernel from 2.6.22->2.6.2x. 2. Xen hypervisor side Recently, Xen-3.1.1 was released that contains various fixes for the Xen-3.1. However the next version of (Xen-3.2) will be release in November. This will (hopefully) include things like cpufreq support. (This will also have to be ported from 2.6.18 to 2.6.24). In my opinnon, we should be using Xen-3.2 for hardy. I would also like the resync debian's patches with our own. So the tools will be in a better shape. 3. Windows support Users would like to use Xen to use windows with it (god only knows why ;) 4. Xen-tools I would like to expand our simple base of tools that we use now (xen-tools, xenman). I would like to use things like virt-man (especially for the desktop, however its redhat only no debian images) however I might not have time for that. Comments and help during the hardy release cycle is greatly appreciated. Thanks chuck -- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
