Hello Xen devel team, Do you have some prevision about when the dom0 xen kernel will be in mainstream linux kernel or updated for kernel releases > 2.6.18.x? I am particularly worried since others hypervisors/virtualization software are updated or are in mainstream linux kernel. Any news about this question? Cheers, -- Marco Sinhoreli _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
Daniel P. Berrange
2008-Apr-24 18:53 UTC
Re: [Xen-devel] Dom0 on mainstream linux kernel, when?
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 03:43:53PM -0300, Marco Sinhoreli wrote:> Hello Xen devel team, > > Do you have some prevision about when the dom0 xen kernel will be in > mainstream linux kernel or updated for kernel releases > 2.6.18.x? I > am particularly worried since others hypervisors/virtualization > software are updated or are in mainstream linux kernel. Any news about > this question?Fedora has been doing work to get Xen guests kernels working on modern kernels using the pv_ops support in mainline. In Fedora 9 there is i686 (already upstream) and x86_64 (add on patches) DomU support on 2.6.25 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/XenPvops The x86_64 DomU patches will be pushed upstream as soon as practical The next plan is to get Dom0 kernls working for Fedora 10. Whether Dom0 patches will get accepted upstream is an open question because they are more complex than DomU support http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/XenPvopsDom0 In absence of Dom0 support, the ''xenner'' project also provides the ability to run paravirt Xen DomU kernels using KVM fullvirt if you''re unable to switch the guest in question to a real bare metal kernel. Regards, Dan. -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, Boston -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel