[Pkg-xen-devel] Xen status in lenny?

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 09:42:13AM +0200, Jan Wagner wrote:
> Good morning,
> 
> On Wednesday 17 September 2008, Paul van der Vlis wrote:
> > > since we have rolled out over 50 dom0 with etch, we are really interested
> > > into having xen dom0 support in lenny.
> >
> > So far I know you can run Lenny as a dom0, but not with the Lenny
> > kernel. You can e.g. use the Etch Xen kernel or the Xensource kernel,
> > both Linux 2.6.18.
> 
> thats not what I understand as "dom0 support in lenny". I'm looking for 
> security support also for the kernel. I guess even if it's planed to release 
> lenny+1/2 with a dom0 kernel, we have the chance to have 2 pita:
> 
> * there will no dom0 support from upstream available in reasonable time 

You can monitor these pages for dom0 related info:

dom0 (and other pv_ops) patches:
http://xenbits.xensource.com/paravirt_ops/patches.hg/

General information/progress about pv_ops upstream Xen kernel:
http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenParavirtOps

-- Pasi