Then what would be the Dom0 kernel in Fedora 9? Emre
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 8:33 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 09:28:05PM +0200, Pasi K?rkk?inen wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 03:29:17PM +0000, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > > > Hi, > > > Fedora's Xen hackers have been working hard towards switching > > > our kernel-xen package from a forward-ported Xensource kernel tree to > a > > > state-of-the-art upstream, paravirt_ops based, kernel in Fedora 9 as > > > described here: > > > > > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/XenPvops > > > > http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2007-November/msg00106.html > > > > > > Some great progress has been made, and tomorrow's rawhide will > > > have a kernel-xen update with: > > > > > > + A very recent 2.6.25-rc4 base > > > > > > + Xen paravirt_ops DomU from upstream > > > > > > + x86_64 Xen paravirt_ops DomU support > > > > > > + Paravirt framebuffer > > > > > > However, although the Dom0 paravirt_ops work is well advanced > at > > > this point, we still don't have backend drivers or x86_64 Dom0 > working. > > > > > > With the feature freeze looming next week, we have make the > > > difficult decision to focus the Fedora 9 efforts on DomU and postpone > > > the inclusion of paravirt_ops Dom0 support. > > > > > > > First I'd like to thank you guys for doing this work. I think it's very > > important to get good Xen support working and integrated into upstream > kernel. > > > > Was there some specific problem/bug about dom0 support (backend drivers > and > > x86-64), or just not enough time? > > Simply lack of time - stability of DomU is of most importance because we > can't change the $INSTALL_TREE/images/xen/{vmlinux,initrd.img} once F9 > is released. So we need to prioritize DomU support. Pushing out a new > kernel to add Dom0 is trivial post-GA since it doesn't impact installer > images. > > Dan. > -- > |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 > -=| > |=- Perl modules: > http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/<http://search.cpan.org/%7Edanberr/> > -=| > |=- Projects: > http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/<http://freshmeat.net/%7Edanielpb/> > -=| > |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 > -=| > > -- > Fedora-xen mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen > -- Emre Erenoglu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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