[Pkg-xen-devel] Re: [Pkg-xen-changes] r70 - trunk/xen-3.0/debian

[Ralph Passgang]

Am Mittwoch, 8. März 2006 20:01 schrieb Bastian Blank:
> On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 04:52:32PM +0100, Ralph Passgang wrote:
> > The problem is that the normal i386 userspace tools to control xen
> > domains doesn't work with a 64bit hypervisor+dom0 kernel. At least that
> > is what I read on the xen-ml more than once.
>
> This is correct, that is why I disabled that piece.

I already saw that in the -changes mails :)

It looks like you are making some real process at the moment. I am not sure 
how to merge both "trees" in future, but I think that's the way we should go 
at some point.

best of two breeds :)

> > I am not a c-guru, so I don't know if this is fixable in future versions
> > of xen... if it's fixable we should provide a 64bit hypervisor on i386,
> > but at the moment it would only confuse people.
>
> The structures for the userspace-kernel and kernel-hypervisor
> communication needs to be proper alligned. This is not rocket science
> but even the linux developer not always got it right which is the reason
> for the ioctl32 layer.

but you don't wanted to say that linux developers are not capable enough for 
rocket science? :))

> > hmmm, in future this might get more complicated anyways, because xen will
> > be available on more then just i386 & amd64 in future.
>
> In both 3.0 and unstable there is ia64 support, powerpc may show up in
> the near future.

but ia64 is not really ready for "production-use", right? otherwise we should 
start providing ia64 packages too... (argh, has anybody a ia64 host for 
testing the results?) :)

> Bastian

--Ralph