On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 10:41 -0600, Tim Flink wrote:
During the discussion around Xen DomU support as a beta release
criterion in the Fedora QA meeting today, the question of blocking for
DomU came up.
Specifically, do we want to have Xen DomU support as a final release
criteria?
I can think of two arguments for making it a release criterion:
1. If install as DomU doesn't work at final release, it becomes much
more difficult to install as DomU for that release without spinning
custom install media.
2. Amazon EC2 is based on Xen, DomU support could affect our ability to
release on EC2.
Another thought is that Fedora 16 is going to be the first release in a
while that supports running as Xen Dom0. It seems a bit silly to have
support for Dom0 and not have the ability to run as DomU.
Anyhow, thoughts around making DomU support a final release criterion?
So this discussion seems to have stalled. Tim and I are both ambivalent,
and we got three responses that were positive but tentative or from
'interested parties' (no offence :>). Does anyone who doesn't have skin
in the game have an opinion either way?
It might be good to consider use cases too. One particular one is EC2:
I've heard that EC2 guests are Xen instances but I'm not entirely sure
about the details. Is this the case? i.e. if a Fedora release didn't
boot in Xen would that make it unusable in EC2? That would certainly be
a consideration.
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