Author: ultrotter Date: 2006-02-25 18:23:47 +0000 (Sat, 25 Feb 2006) New Revision: 58 Modified: trunk/debian/NEWS.Debian trunk/debian/README.Debian Log: Add some more news to NEWS.Debian, as discussed on the list Update README.Debian rephrasing a sentence a bit Modified: trunk/debian/NEWS.Debian ==================================================================--- trunk/debian/NEWS.Debian 2006-02-25 13:41:48 UTC (rev 57) +++ trunk/debian/NEWS.Debian 2006-02-25 18:23:47 UTC (rev 58) @@ -7,5 +7,15 @@ Linux 2.6.12. Instructions for how to do so are provided in the README.Debian file, as they are useful for new users of Xen too. + Also please note that Xen 2.0.6 has a bug and before getting removed doesn''t + shutdown your domains. This, together with the fact that xen-utils for Xen + 3.0 is incompatible with the 2.0 hypervisor means that you won''t be able to + control your domains after upgrading, other than through the network. So + please shut them all down before upgrading to this packages. + + If you want to be really sure that nothing will go wrong please reboot into + a normal Linux system before upgrading, upgrade from there, build the new + kernels, and only then start your new Xen 3.0 system. + -- Guido Trotter <ultrotter@debian.org> Tue, 21 Feb 2006 09:07:26 +0100 Modified: trunk/debian/README.Debian ==================================================================--- trunk/debian/README.Debian 2006-02-25 13:41:48 UTC (rev 57) +++ trunk/debian/README.Debian 2006-02-25 18:23:47 UTC (rev 58) @@ -44,8 +44,9 @@ module /boot/xen-linux-2.6.12.6xeno003 root=/dev/sda1 ro console=tty0 boot - Of course you have to supply your kernel path and root device in the module - line for this to work when you reboot. + Of course you have this example supplying your own kernel path and root + device in the module line in order to have a working Xen system after a + reboot. We will provide a "roll your own xen kernel" manual and example config files later on. We also hope to be able to provide complete Xen kernels, sooner or