[Fedora-xen] FYI: The plan for Xen kernels in Fedora 9
Tony Coffman
tony at emitony.com
Fri Nov 30 19:17:43 UTC 2007
All I can say is Bravo!
Thank you and the entire Fedora Xen kernel team for undertaking this
quite substantial effort.
Regards,
--Tony
Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> So the plan is to re-focus 100% of all Xen kernel efforts onto paravirt_ops.
> LKML already has i386 pv_ops + Xen DomU. We intend to build on this to
> add:
>
> - x64_64 pv_ops
> - x86_64 Xen DomU on pv_ops
> - i386 & x86_64 Xen Dom0 on pv_ops
> - memory balloon
> - paravirt framebuffer
> - save/restore
>
> All of this based on same LKML release as Fedora bare metal. If all goes to
> plan it may even be in the base kernel RPM, instead of kernel-xen, but thats
> a minor concern compared to the actual coding.
>
> Getting all this done for Fedora 9 is seriously ambitious, but it is the only
> long term sustainable option, other than dropping Xen entirely.
>
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