F7 redux, and the road to F8.

[Rik van Riel]

Dave Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 03:38:05PM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> 
>  > > Xen.
>  > > ~~~~
>  > > This might get interesting to watch for F8 if XenU gets upstream
>  > > (Which akpm seems to suggest it might).  Given we've decoupled
>  > > kernel/kernel-xen, we might want to just disable the upstream variant
>  > > until F9, and wait until we have both the dom0 and the domU stuff
>  > > coming from the same pieces.  Will need more discussion with
>  > > the virtualisation team when that lands in Linus' tree.
>  > 
>  > And there's also the kvm-xen stuff that could serve as a replacement for
>  > the dom0 bits :-)  Even if not, it's probably worth getting the domU
>  > bits into the regular kernel because then we can simplify some of the
>  > installer stuff quite a bit.
> 
> With dom0 coming from one place and domU from another, I get the creeps
> about ABI differences when they're on different versions.

No worries there.  RHEL5 GA Xen kernels run on the latest
Xen hypervisor, without any patches applied.  This is the
dom0 kernel, even ...

The guest interface is even more stable.

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