[Pkg-xen-devel] Xen (dom0) Kernels in Lenny

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 12:37:30PM +0100, Henning Sprang wrote:
> Hi,
> Freeze is coming closer, and it starts more and more to look like there
> will be no (complete, especially lacking dom0 Kernel patches) Xen
> support in lenny if nothing changes, like:
> 
> 2) Some people come together and try to work out the needed patches for
> the newest Kernels and make them available in Debian. (I don't know
> what's the newest available patchset, would be interesting to check what
> the other doistributions do and have...)
> 

Basicly it looks like the latest well working Xen-kernel patches are for 
2.6.18 kernel (included with xen.org releases) and shipped with rhel5/centos5
and debian etch 4.0.

RedHat guys are working to get all the (missing) Xen features ported to
vanilla/Linus (kernel.org) kernel and submitted and integrated upstream.

This work is being done at the moment, and will be in Fedora 9 this spring. 
Currently these new patches are for 2.6.24 kernel, but they're still in an
alpha/beta stage.

-- Pasi