Then what would be the Dom0 kernel in Fedora 9?
Emre
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 8:33 PM, Daniel P. Berrange berrange@redhat.com wrote:
On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 09:28:05PM +0200, Pasi K?rkk?inen wrote:
On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 03:29:17PM +0000, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
Hi, Fedora's Xen hackers have been working hard towards switching our kernel-xen package from a forward-ported Xensource kernel tree to
a
state-of-the-art upstream, paravirt_ops based, kernel in Fedora 9 as described here:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2007-November/msg00106.html
Some great progress has been made, and tomorrow's rawhide will
have a kernel-xen update with:
A very recent 2.6.25-rc4 base
Xen paravirt_ops DomU from upstream
x86_64 Xen paravirt_ops DomU support
Paravirt framebuffer
However, although the Dom0 paravirt_ops work is well advanced
at
this point, we still don't have backend drivers or x86_64 Dom0
working.
With the feature freeze looming next week, we have make the
difficult decision to focus the Fedora 9 efforts on DomU and postpone the inclusion of paravirt_ops Dom0 support.
First I'd like to thank you guys for doing this work. I think it's very important to get good Xen support working and integrated into upstream
kernel.
Was there some specific problem/bug about dom0 support (backend drivers
and
x86-64), or just not enough time?
Simply lack of time - stability of DomU is of most importance because we can't change the $INSTALL_TREE/images/xen/{vmlinux,initrd.img} once F9 is released. So we need to prioritize DomU support. Pushing out a new kernel to add Dom0 is trivial post-GA since it doesn't impact installer images.
Dan.
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