[Pkg-xen-devel] dom0 kernel for xen 3.2

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 02:45:34PM +0300, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 11:59:27PM +0300, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote:
> > > Hello.
> > >
> > > Which kernel could be used for dom0 together with just-uploaded xen
> > > hypervisor 3.2 ?
> >
> > I think 2.6.18-5-xen kernel is a pretty safe choise.. official xen 3.2.0
> > is based on 2.6.18 kernel anyway (xensource has not updated xen patches
> > for later kernels).
> 
> I've read somewhere that 2.6.18-5-xen kernel from etch is not compatible 
> with xen 3-1, and won't boot with it.
> Is that true?
>

I don't think that's true.. a friend of mine installed debian xen 3.1.2 two
days ago (64bit version) and booted dom0 with 2.6.18-5-xen kernel.

> What about xen 3.2 ?
>

I think it should work, but I've not tried it yet.
 
> I'm currently running several xen-based servers, and there are some issues 
> with those. I would like to check if situation is better with later xen 
> releases.

Problems with what? :)

-- Pasi