[Fedora-xen] ppc64 xen support

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 11:37:13AM -0500, Spencer Shimko wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was looking for any information people may have on running Fedora 8 Xen on
> a PPC64 platform.  Xen appears to support ppc64 but none of the Fedora pages
> seem to mention it and Fedora doesn't have a ppc64 Xen kernel.

Libvirt & the tools stack is able to build on PPC & we've have patches to
fix PPC portability issues. The main blocker is that we don't have a PPC
kernel for Xen that is usable. Without that we can't build the Xen userspace.

> Anyone taken a swing at this or have any thoughts on where I should focus my
> efforts? 

You should probably ask on the Fedora PPC mailing list

http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/fedora-ppc

Dan,
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