On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 03:51:10PM +0300, Pasi K?rkk?inen wrote:
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 11:32:12AM +0100, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:
On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 19:53 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
Sadly that's life with Xen. Upstream Xen has basically stopped all kernel development leaving 'official' Xen kernels stuck on 2.6.28 which is essentially useless for any modern distro. We had the choice between trying to finish off the paravirt_ops port, or dropping Xen entirely :-(
What's this? Xen kernel development has stopped? What does that mean - is the GPL project dead?
Not at all.
In fact, I'd strongly disagree with Daniel's characterisation that Xen has "stopped all kernel development" Redhat need to "finish off" the paravirt_ops port. I've been working on it full time for the last couple of years, and have done the vast majority of the work needed to get paravirt_ops working.
Redhat have contributed valuable work in areas like the paravirtual framebuffer device, and are working on 64-bit and dom0 support. But all of that is based on the work I've been doing on paravirt-ops infrastructure itself and the Xen implementation which uses it.
Which reminds me that would be really nice to get a binary rpm for kernel-xen with dom0 patches in it to try it and start reporting bugs.. :)
This is intended to go into rawhide sometime in the reasonably near future, now that the critical F9 kerne-xen bugs have mostly been ironed out.
Dan.