Xen patched kernel packages

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 07:18:45PM +0400, 2004 ruffneck wrote:
> 31.07.07, 17:38, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com>:
> 
> First of all, thank you for quick answer!
> 
> > We separated the Xen kernel from the bare metal kernel because porting
> > Xen from the ancient XenSource delivered kernelss to current LKML state 
> > of the art was taking too much time. Xen porting was delaying updates 
> > of bare metal kernels to an unacceptable degree.
> 
> 
> Ok, I got it.
> 
> > As for Xen being merged upstream, while we welcome it, it is of no use to
> > Fedora at this time because it is far from feature complete, nor does it
> > have the architecture coverage we need
> > http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2007-July/msg00106.html
> > Regards,
> > Dan.
> 
> Daniel, please, correct me if I'm wrong. In linux-2.6.23 merged only DomU 
> part of Xen,  am I right? If I am, that it is really useless at this time.

Only DomU for i386, with no memory ballooning, no suspend/restore. In fact
only the basic kernel, SMP and net/disk driver frontend. As a minimum for
it to be useful in Fedora we need x86_64 support, then we'll consider using
it. It is unclear at this time if Dom0 support will ever be merged or not,
as the patches are yet to be developed or proposed.

So its a 'nice, but wait and see' situation for now.

Dan.
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