Dustin Kirkland wrote: > Howdy, > > Ubuntu 8.04 LTS was the first of the major server distributions to > ship KVM as the preferred hypervisor for virtual machine hosting. > KVM's upstream development has proceeded at a vigorous pace--faster > than Ubuntu's other server cornerstones (LAMP, Samba, Bind, Postfix, > etc). > > The major version of the KVM userspace shipped in 8.04.2 LTS (kvm-62), > and the kvm kernel module in linux-2.6.24 are affected by several key > architectural issues that cannot be solved through cherry-picked > patches. > > On March 17, 2009, I posted the following call for testing: > * > http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2009/03/ubuntu-server-kvm-call-for-testing.html > > We have worked through a number of the issues raised after that blog > post, and cherry-picked several patches that fix some known bugs. We > believe that Ubuntu 9.04's kvm-84 is a far more complete hypervisor. > > This is a call for one more round of testing of a release-candidate > build of that package (kvm - 1:84+dfsg-0ubuntu12.1~rc1) in the > ubuntu-virt ppa: > * https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-virt/+archive/ppa > > If you are able to assist us with the testing, please add that PPA, > and install both the userspace and dkms built kernel module onto your > 8.04 and/or 8.10 servers. > $ sudo apt-get install kvm kvm-source > > Please file any bugs against kvm in Launchpad, and please tag them > with "kvm-84". > * https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kvm > > The goal is to upload a version of kvm-84 to the hardy-backports and > intrepid-backports repositories around July 6, 2009. > * https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports > > Thank you,
You know that I'm pretty close to uploading a 9.04 server kernel to Hardy proposed, don't you? https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/kernel-karmic-new-kernel-on-lts rtg -- Tim Gardner [email protected] -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
