[Pkg-xen-devel] [RESENT] Re: Xen for Squeeze, 3.4 or 4.0

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 09:55:58AM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 07:33:58AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> > ?ukasz Ole? wrote:
> > > 2010/6/10 Bastian Blank <waldi at debian.org>:
> > >>> My personal preference would be to go with 4.0.
> > > 
> > > I completely agree. Probably more people will use pvops kernel with
> > > 4.0 instead 3.4, so hopefully it will be better tested.
> > 
> > Hi Bastian,
> > 
> > I have been running Xen 4.0.0 on my laptop since you made the Debian
> > package, and there wasn't a single glitch (apart maybe the hibernate
> > function which I don't really care about). Using an old version of Xen
> > that already receives less attention from upstream isn't a bright idea.
> > I believe that 4.0.1 will soon be released, which has many fixes.
> > There's lots of new interesting features in 4.x too (like blktap2, which
> > I believe you could re-add in the Debian package as the issue with
> > OpenSSL was only the md5 thing, I suppose you saw it). My vote goes for
> > 4.0.x.
> > 
> 
> I'd vote for 4.0.x too.
> 4.0.1 should be out this month.
> 
> Xen 4.0 is the correct hypervisor to use with pvops dom0 kernels.. 
> there has been doubts if 3.4 series has all the required tweaks for pvops dom0.
> 

Oh, and Novell SLES11 SP1 is shipping Xen 4.0 hypervisor, so that might help if there are bugs to debug/patch..
(They're not shipping a pvops dom0 kernel thought, their 2.6.32 dom0 kernel is the xenlinux variant based on their forward-ported patches).

-- Pasi