[Fedora-xen] F10 crystal ball gazing

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 09:47:48AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 11:07:15AM +0300, Pasi K?rkk?inen wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 05:45:51PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 10:24:31PM +0100, Andy Burns wrote:
> > > > Given that xen is entering feature freeze for updated release ~August
> > > > is it too early to ask what the *hopes* are for xen in fedora10?
> > > > 
> > > > xen 3.3.0 (or late rc) or is this still likely to be 3.2.1 or 3.2.2?
> > > 
> > > Even though we don't have any Dom0 I'll update it to 3.3.0 for the xen
> > > RPM and hypervisor. This will at least let people build their own legacy
> > > Xen kernel from upstream's 2.6.18 xen kernel if they're lucky enough to
> > > have hardware which works with it.
> > > 
> > 
> > If pv_ops dom0 won't be ready for F10, would it be possible to ship
> > xensource 2.6.18 based dom0 kernel? At least that's supported upstream.. 
> > 
> > Would be better than nothing.. 
> 
> No, it is worse than nothing. It is incompatible with a large number of
> userspace packages which expect interfaces/ABIs from newer kernel versions
> and thus uttery unsupportable. 
> 

Yeah well, that makes sense.. damn, really crappy situation right now with kernels
compatible with xen dom0 :(

-- Pasi