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

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 03:11:16PM +0000, Henning Sprang wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 15:47 +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > [...]
> > 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.
> 
> Hmm, I know that's right for Debian, but IIRC the version of Xen Kernels
> in Fedora 8 is .21 - and I believe to remember, they have different
> versions there for the normal Kernel (it was the latest available at
> that time, .22 I guess) and the Xen kernels.
> 

Yes, there's a later Xen kernel on Fedora 8, but IIRC there has been more
problems (and less testing) with it than with 2.6.18 based ones..

> > 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.
> 
> Do you think it is useful to test anything in this area for the Debian
> Kernels as for now?
> 
> Or anything else I could do to help making sure we really get these
> patches into Debian if they are done and useable?
> 

http://www.nabble.com/Updated-dom0-for-pvops:-now-boots-on-32-bit!-td15235391.html

Check that out.. 

-- Pasi