Re: [Xen-devel] Fwd: [Xen-users] Missing 3.2 binary install package

Nico Kadel-Garcia
2008-03-01T11:17:18Z

jim burns wrote:
> On Thursday 28 February 2008 09:56:41 am Ian Jackson wrote:
>
>> Failing that, I would
>> suggest building the hypervisor or the kernel (whichever you
don''t
>> have) from the source tarballs on the xen.org website.
Vendors'' dom0
>> kernels intended for 3.1 are generally useable with 3.2.
>>
>
> What are the limits here? Would the xen.gz 3.0.3 compiled with the dom0
> kernel, such as found with Centos, work with the xen 3.2 tarball? I would
> assume the compatibility code would let it work, but what features would
> be unsupported/not functional? Thanx.
>
It should, it has for work I''ve done before. The DomU kernels are much
more forward compatible with more recent Dom0 kernels than the reverse:
it''s not really suprising.