[Fedora-xen] FC6 and updates for xen?

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 03:18:16PM +0200, Pasi K?rkk?inen wrote:
> Hi list!
> 
> xen-3.0.3-1.fc6.i386.rpm seems to be in updates-testing for FC6.
> 
> Are there other xen updates planned for FC6.. ie. is 3.0.4 (or even 3.0.5) 
> going to packaged for FC6?

Lets not get ahead of ourselves. 3.0.3 is the current stable release of
Xen. 3.0.4 is not finished/released and 3.0.5 hasn't even begun development.

Until released its premature to say that we'll release them as FC6 
updates. As with most Xen updates, 3.0.4 is painful because we'll need to 
upgrade the complete hypervisor, kernel & userspace stack all in one go....
yet again.... because of ABI changes between HV & userspace. There have
also been many control stack changes in the userspace of 3.0.4 which need
extensive testing before allowing them anywhere near FC6. 

So /if/ 3.0.4 becomes available for FC6, it'll only be after a decent spell
of stabalization & testing in rawhide.  3.0.5 is anybody's guess because
there's no clear timeline for it & no really firm development roadmap from 
upstream Xen yet.

Dan
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