xen discuss - Dec 2005 - [xen-discuss] Please consider releasing the Xen 2.0.x code.

While Xen 3.0 is a big step forward for Xen in the large enterprise, it
currently lacks some of the features that 2.0.x had for paravirtualised non VT
environments. As you have the code please consider making it available.
This message posted from opensolaris.org

* geoff.buckingham at reuters.com [20051221T112726]:
> While Xen 3.0 is a big step forward for Xen in the large enterprise,
> it currently lacks some of the features that 2.0.x had for
> paravirtualised non VT environments. As you have the code please
> consider making it available.
Could you say specifically what you''re after?

The main thing that I''m aware of is device access for domU.  I
don''t
believe that this was ever attempted with our 2.0 port and would
probably require further work on our part.

dme.
-- 
David Edmondson, Solaris Engineering, Sun Microsystems.

Device access and working DomUs besides 2.6 Linux kernels. There may be
others but those two have been enough to stop me doing anything beyond
hw compatibility testing for 3.0.

-----Original Message-----
* geoff.buckingham at reuters.com [20051221T112726]:
> While Xen 3.0 is a big step forward for Xen in the large enterprise, 
> it currently lacks some of the features that 2.0.x had for 
> paravirtualised non VT environments. As you have the code please 
> consider making it available.
Could you say specifically what you''re after?

The main thing that I''m aware of is device access for domU.  I
don''t
believe that this was ever attempted with our 2.0 port and would
probably require further work on our part.

dme.
--
David Edmondson, Solaris Engineering, Sun Microsystems.


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I hope You don''t mind me jumping in here, but I''m very happy
to see a current reply on a request for opensolaris/Xen being released.

I''m not sure  if You''re aware, but there is a high number of
Xen users that would like to have at least a chance of trying out the current
state of Your work, in my personal environment like 100% of the xen users are
just waiting for any opensolaris domU to play with.

of course hardware access would be nice for consolidating backup- or
fileservers,
but it would mean no harm to try it out as a regular domU as long as that
functionality is not yet there.
I myself would like to do some more work for NetBSD''s pkgsrc on
opensolaris, but after my last power bill definitely won''t have a
second system running for that; effectively this means I can''t do
anything until there is a xen domU available, and it''s hard knowing
that all that''d be needed for my purposes is already there but simply
not yet released.

Of course at some point in the future I''ll love running my dom0 on
Solaris10 or opensolaris and thus trusting it to a ''real''
operating system, but this is not a top priority, I''d rather move
forward with the things at hand.

Regards and thank You for giving feedback!
Florian
This message posted from opensolaris.org

* floh at deranfangvomen.de [20051228T160239]:
> I''m not sure if You''re aware, but there is a high number
of Xen
> users that would like to have at least a chance of trying out the
> current state of Your work, in my personal environment like 100% of
> the xen users are just waiting for any opensolaris domU to play
> with.
Florian, is your "personal environment" based on Xen 2.0 or 3.x?

dme.
-- 
David Edmondson, Solaris Engineering, Sun Microsystems.