Pkg xen devel - Aug 2008 - using Ubuntu's dom0 xen support for kernel >=2.6.24?

Hi,
After the discussions of the last week about the topic of dom0 support, 
and being fairly sure there is no working solution in any distribution, 
I've been shown a working dom0 with Ubuntu, with 2.6.24-20.

I actually did not believe this would work, and stated I'd not believe 
it until seeing it - and I saw it some minutes later, Ubuntu 7.10 
booting dom0 with 2.6.24-20.

No idea what patches they use - a port of XenLinux, or a vanilla kernel 
with pv_ops fixed to work, but it might be a way to take whatever they 
do and base dom0 support for lenny on it?!

Henning (trying to investigate this over this weekend...)

On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 5:21 AM, Henning Sprang <henning_sprang at gmx.de>
wrote:
> Hi,
> After the discussions of the last week about the topic of dom0 support,
> and being fairly sure there is no working solution in any distribution,
> I've been shown a working dom0 with Ubuntu, with 2.6.24-20.
>
> I actually did not believe this would work, and stated I'd not believe
> it until seeing it - and I saw it some minutes later, Ubuntu 7.10
> booting dom0 with 2.6.24-20.
>
> No idea what patches they use - a port of XenLinux, or a vanilla kernel
> with pv_ops fixed to work, but it might be a way to take whatever they
> do and base dom0 support for lenny on it?!
>
> Henning (trying to investigate this over this weekend...)
>
The Ubuntu xen kernel is a forward port of the 2.6.18 xen source kernel
applied to the ubuntu kernel.

Fedora and, it seems, debian as well, are both waiting for dom0 in upstream.

see:
http://www.nabble.com/kernel-xen-is-dead-td18637077.html
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.xen.devel/54274

Cheers,
Todd

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