Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-04-06 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 03:40:40PM -0400, Micah Anderson wrote: Nikita V. Youshchenko yo...@debian.org writes: We have had to carry that patch without any upstream support (or sharing with Novell, which eventually released SLES 11 with 2.6.27). As a result, the xen-flavour kernels for

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-04-06 Thread micah anderson
On 2010-04-06, micah anderson wrote: On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 03:40:40PM -0400, Micah Anderson wrote: Nikita V. Youshchenko yo...@debian.org writes: We have had to carry that patch without any upstream support (or sharing with Novell, which eventually released SLES 11 with 2.6.27). As

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-04-06 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 11:00:50AM -0400, micah anderson wrote: On 2010-04-06, micah anderson wrote: On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 03:40:40PM -0400, Micah Anderson wrote: Nikita V. Youshchenko yo...@debian.org writes: We have had to carry that patch without any upstream support (or

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-04-06 Thread micah anderson
Novell is actively developing their SLES11 2.6.27 kernel-xen, and upcoming SLES11 SP1 will have 2.6.32 kernel-xen. I did not know that. vcpu pinning is not required for a properly working kernel.. It shouldn't be, I agree... but it seems like it is required to keep the kernel from a

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-04-01 Thread Micah Anderson
Nikita V. Youshchenko yo...@debian.org writes: We have had to carry that patch without any upstream support (or sharing with Novell, which eventually released SLES 11 with 2.6.27). As a result, the xen-flavour kernels for lenny are very buggy, particularly for domains with multiple vCPUs

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-24 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 17:10 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Pasi Kärkkäinen pa...@iki.fi writes: On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 11:02:51AM +1100, Brian May wrote: On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 06:12:28PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: If we're talking about Linux 2.6.32 support for pv_ops dom0

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-24 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Ian Campbell i...@hellion.org.uk writes: On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 17:10 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Pasi Kärkkäinen pa...@iki.fi writes: On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 11:02:51AM +1100, Brian May wrote: On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 06:12:28PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: If we're talking

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-20 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Pasi Kärkkäinen pa...@iki.fi writes: On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 11:02:51AM +1100, Brian May wrote: On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 06:12:28PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: If we're talking about Linux 2.6.32 support for pv_ops dom0 here, then that's in progress, see:

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-20 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 05:10:55PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Pasi Kärkkäinen pa...@iki.fi writes: On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 11:02:51AM +1100, Brian May wrote: On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 06:12:28PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: If we're talking about Linux 2.6.32 support for pv_ops

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-20 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 06:16:27PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 05:10:55PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Pasi Kärkkäinen pa...@iki.fi writes: On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 11:02:51AM +1100, Brian May wrote: On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 06:12:28PM +0200, Pasi

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-07 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 03 Jan 2010, William Pitcock wrote: That was opposed quite strongly by the kernel folks last time it was attempted. Were there any fundamental changes in the Xen dom0 patches since then? Only by the kernel folks which believe all of the crap that the KVM guys say about Xen.

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-07 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 11:06:56AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Sun, 03 Jan 2010, William Pitcock wrote: That was opposed quite strongly by the kernel folks last time it was attempted. Were there any fundamental changes in the Xen dom0 patches since then? Only by the

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-05 Thread Jon Dowland
I think you are addressing the wrong list. This is debian-devel, for discussion of Debian development. Your question is off-topic here. Please try one of the debian-user mailing lists instead. As a second point, you have replied to an unrelated message on debian-devel and referenced the unrelated

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-04 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 09:42:53PM +0300, William Pitcock wrote: That was opposed quite strongly by the kernel folks last time it was attempted. Were there any fundamental changes in the Xen dom0 patches since then? Only by the kernel folks which believe all of the crap that the KVM guys

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-04 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
We have had to carry that patch without any upstream support (or sharing with Novell, which eventually released SLES 11 with 2.6.27). As a result, the xen-flavour kernels for lenny are very buggy, particularly for domains with multiple vCPUs (though that *may* be fixed now). Unfortunately it

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-04 Thread Jaco Wiese
Good day list, Is anyone else having a problem with the latest squeeze update of gnome-panel? When booting up, the entire desktop shows, icons and everything, and you can work on it. But the panels take almost 5 minutes to come up... after that it's fine. Anyone else experiencing this?

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread Russell Coker
On Sun, 3 Jan 2010, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: It does require virtualisation extensions, but most x86 processors sold in the last few years have them. My SE Linux Play Machine is currently running on a P3-800 system with 256M of RAM. I would like to continue running on that

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 3 Jan 2010 16:55:27 +1100, Brian May b...@snoopy.debian.net wrote: Like I said previously, I think dropping Xen support is a mistake because KVM requires QEMU and QEMU seems to have a reputation of being insecure. Xen is unsupportable due to clueless upstream, who has been in a constant

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 01:21:55AM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: I believe we will have Xen hypervisor and Linux dom0 packages, The hypervisor works well, but the Linux Dom0 packages are not available yet, upstream is again fading behind. Bastian -- What kind of love is that? Not to be loved;

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 04:55:27PM +1100, Brian May wrote: On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 01:21:55AM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: I believe we will have Xen hypervisor and Linux dom0 packages, but they will not be supported to the degree that ordinary kernel packages are. I can't see any Xen kernel

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread Romain Francoise
Brian May b...@snoopy.debian.net writes: http://blog.orebokech.com/2007/05/xen-security-or-lack-thereof.html links to http://taviso.decsystem.org/virtsec.pdf. I don't know for certain this applies to KVM, however I would assume so. Only to a certain extent. Nowadays Linux guests in KVM use

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Brian May, le Sun 03 Jan 2010 16:48:06 +1100, a écrit : On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 12:47:54PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Brian May b...@snoopy.debian.net wrote: 1) I believe Xen, with paravirtualization (that is without QEMU) is more secure then KVM (or

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 10:46:38AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: On Sun, 3 Jan 2010 16:55:27 +1100, Brian May b...@snoopy.debian.net wrote: Like I said previously, I think dropping Xen support is a mistake because KVM requires QEMU and QEMU seems to have a reputation of being insecure. Xen is

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 11:23:28AM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 01:21:55AM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: I believe we will have Xen hypervisor and Linux dom0 packages, The hypervisor works well, but the Linux Dom0 packages are not available yet, upstream is again fading

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 06:31:20PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: So the change has happened, lthough it took painfully long to get the upstream Linux pv_ops framework in shape and all that.. and obviously the pv_ops dom0 patches still need to get merged upstream. That was opposed quite

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 07:33:07PM +0100, Gabor Gombas wrote: On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 06:31:20PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: So the change has happened, lthough it took painfully long to get the upstream Linux pv_ops framework in shape and all that.. and obviously the pv_ops dom0

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread William Pitcock
- Marc Haber mh+debian-de...@zugschlus.de wrote: On Sun, 3 Jan 2010 16:55:27 +1100, Brian May b...@snoopy.debian.net wrote: Like I said previously, I think dropping Xen support is a mistake because KVM requires QEMU and QEMU seems to have a reputation of being insecure. Xen is

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread William Pitcock
- Gabor Gombas gomb...@sztaki.hu wrote: On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 06:31:20PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: So the change has happened, lthough it took painfully long to get the upstream Linux pv_ops framework in shape and all that.. and obviously the pv_ops dom0 patches still need

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 12:47:54PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Brian May b...@snoopy.debian.net wrote: 1) I believe Xen, with paravirtualization (that is without QEMU) is more secure then KVM (or Xen) with QEMU. I haven't heard this claim before, do you

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread Brian May
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 11:26:34AM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 04:55:27PM +1100, Brian May wrote: On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 01:21:55AM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: I believe we will have Xen hypervisor and Linux dom0 packages, but they will not be supported to the

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread Brian May
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 09:49:24PM +0300, William Pitcock wrote: Xen is unsupportable due to clueless upstream, who has been in a constant FAIL state regarding support of current kernels for years. Do you have any proof for this claim? xen.git seems pretty up to date to me (2.6.31.6), and

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread Brian May
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 06:12:28PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: If we're talking about Linux 2.6.32 support for pv_ops dom0 here, then that's in progress, see: http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2009-12/msg01127.html the 2.6.32 tree should be available shortly after Jeremy

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 10:38 +1100, Brian May wrote: On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 09:49:24PM +0300, William Pitcock wrote: Xen is unsupportable due to clueless upstream, who has been in a constant FAIL state regarding support of current kernels for years. Do you have any proof for this

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 11:02:51AM +1100, Brian May wrote: On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 06:12:28PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: If we're talking about Linux 2.6.32 support for pv_ops dom0 here, then that's in progress, see:

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-02 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 12:01:40PM +1100, Brian May wrote: Hello, I have heard rumours that Xen is not going to be supported on Squeeze in favour of KVM. True or False? I believe we will have Xen hypervisor and Linux dom0 packages, but they will not be supported to the degree that ordinary

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 12:01:40PM +1100, Brian May wrote: 2) I believe KVM needs CPU support, and this is not yet available on all modern computers. It does require virtualisation extensions, but most x86 processors

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Brian May b...@snoopy.debian.net wrote: 1) I believe Xen, with paravirtualization (that is without QEMU) is more secure then KVM (or Xen) with QEMU. I haven't heard this claim before, do you have any references to support this? -- bye, pabs

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-02 Thread Brian May
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 12:47:54PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Brian May b...@snoopy.debian.net wrote: 1) I believe Xen, with paravirtualization (that is without QEMU) is more secure then KVM (or Xen) with QEMU. I haven't heard this claim before, do you

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-02 Thread Brian May
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 01:21:55AM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: I believe we will have Xen hypervisor and Linux dom0 packages, but they will not be supported to the degree that ordinary kernel packages are. I can't see any Xen kernel in Squeeze with support for Xen. Am I blind? I don't see the