[Pkg-xen-devel] using Ubuntu's dom0 xen support for kernel >=2.6.24?

[Paul van der Vlis]

Henning Sprang schreef:
> Todd Deshane wrote:
>> The Ubuntu xen kernel is a forward port of the 2.6.18 xen source kernel
>> applied to the ubuntu kernel.
>>
>> Fedora and, it seems, debian as well, are both waiting for dom0 in upstream.
> 
> Yes, this has been discussed her some days ago.
> 
> What nowbody knew was that actually up to date patches ae available for 
> UBuntu.
> 
> Isn't that a solution to the problem of having no dom0 Support in Lenny 
> - just use these Patches from Ubuntu?

It are patches for 2.6.24, not for 2.6.26. Maybe a kernel developer can
tell more about it, I've heard it would be a real pain to offer security
support for it. Ubuntu does not offer security support for universe
packages...

I've heard Novell has a dom0 for Linux 2.6.26, and they offer security
support. But I don't know if you can download the patches already.

It would also be possible to backport the 64-bit domU from 2.6.27.
But the people from the kernel-team do not like that.

Search for "xen" here:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2008/07/threads.html

With regards,
Paul van der Vlis.




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