[et-mgmt-tools] koan 1.0 - RHEL 5.2 x86_64 - Full Virt

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 02:44:52PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 04:37:15PM +0300, Pasi K?rkk?inen wrote:
> > On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 09:55:07AM +0100, Tom Brown wrote:
> > > Hi
> > > 
> > > Does anyone know if a RHEL5.2 x86_64 dom0 using the default Xen which is 
> > > 3.0.3 can do full virt of a 32bit domU ?
> > >
> > 
> > RHEL5.2 has Xen 3.1.2. The package names might say 3.0.3, but it is 3.1.2.
> 
> No, it is not actually that simple.
> 
>  - Hypervisor - 3.1.2
>  - Kernel - 3.0.3 + important patchs from 3.1.0 + 3.1.2
>  - Userspace - 3.0.3 XenD/xm  + 3.1.0 QEMU + important patches
> 
> In particular anything which is a user visible API / command has remained
> only 3.0.3 since we need to maintain stable API / CLI syntax throughout
> the lifetime of RHEL-5.  This is why the packages are still called 3.0.3;
> their user facing API / cli is 3.0.3 based.
> 

Yep, thanks for explaining in in detail. I meant the hypervisor itself is
3.1.2 :)

-- Pasi