[Pkg-xen-devel] xen 4.1 blktap2 support

[Mike Viau]

> On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:42:00 +0200 <darkbasic4 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Is there a particular reason behind the lack of blktap2 support in
> xen-4.1 packages?
> I remember there was license issues when packaging xen-4.0 but they had
> been solved since a long time.
>

The change-log shows that blktap2 has been enabled in Debian xen 4.1 packages since 4.1.0~rc6-1.

If the enabled blktap2 support differs from the upstream blktap2, I am not sure.


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xen (4.1.0~rc6-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release candidate.
   * Build documentation using pdflatex.
   * Use python 2.6. (closes: #596545)
   * Fix lintian override.
   * Install new tools: xl, xenpaging.
   * Enable blktap2.
     - Use own md5 implementation.
     - Fix includes.
     - Fix linking of blktap2 binaries.
     - Remove optimization setting.
   * Temporarily disable hvmloader, wants to download ipxe.
   * Remove xenstored pid check from xl.

 -- Bastian Blank <waldi at debian.org>  Thu, 17 Mar 2011 16:12:45 +0100 

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