[Fedora-xen] Re: No Dom0 support in Fedora 9 and Fedora 8 EOL

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 09:48:17PM +0000, Martin Vuille wrote:
> "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones at redhat.com> wrote in
> news:20080620212533.GA12531 at thinkpad.comcastbusiness.net: 
> 
> > 
> > You'll need to ask Dan Berrange to be certain, but I'm pretty
> > sure the plan is to have a dom0 kernel ready some time during
> > the lifetime of F9.
> > 
> > The reason we don't have an F9 dom0 kernel right now is
> > because there *isn't one*.  Ask XenSource to provide
> > something more recent than > 2 year old Linux 2.6.18 support!
> >  Red Hat are committing two full time developers right now to
> > fix this situation, but it is NOT our fault.
> > 
> 
> Thanks for the clarification. I'll keep on the lookout for updates 
> in F9.

Fedora 9 is basically DomU only and we're still working on getting the
x86_64 patches accepted in upstream LKML trees. Best guess is that this
will be 2.6.27 . In parallel we're still working on Dom0 support with
pvops

  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/XenPvopsDom0

Daniel.
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