[Fedora-xen] Is pci-pasthrough enabled for F9 DomU?

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 03:51:10PM +0300, Pasi K?rkk?inen wrote:
> On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 11:32:12AM +0100, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> > Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:
> > >On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 19:53 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > >  
> > >>Sadly that's life with Xen.  Upstream Xen has basically stopped all 
> > >>kernel development leaving 'official' Xen kernels stuck on 2.6.28 which is
> > >>essentially useless for any modern distro. We had the choice between 
> > >>trying
> > >>to finish off the paravirt_ops port, or dropping Xen entirely :-(
> > >>    
> > >
> > >What's this?  Xen kernel development has stopped?  What does that mean -
> > >is the GPL project dead?
> > 
> > Not at all. 
> > 
> > In fact, I'd strongly disagree with Daniel's characterisation that Xen 
> > has "stopped all kernel development" Redhat need to "finish off" the 
> > paravirt_ops port.  I've been working on it full time for the last 
> > couple of years, and have done the vast majority of the work needed to 
> > get paravirt_ops working.
> > 
> > Redhat have contributed valuable work in areas like the paravirtual 
> > framebuffer device, and are working on 64-bit and dom0 support.  But all 
> > of that is based on the work I've been doing on paravirt-ops 
> > infrastructure itself and the Xen implementation which uses it.
> > 
> 
> Which reminds me that would be really nice to get a binary rpm for kernel-xen
> with dom0 patches in it to try it and start reporting bugs.. :) 

This is intended to go into rawhide sometime in the reasonably near
future, now that the critical F9 kerne-xen bugs have mostly been ironed
out. 

Dan.
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