Re: [Xen-devel] Compiling 2.6.24 Dom0 Kernel

Nate Carlson
Mon, 19 May 2008 04:35:25 -0000

On Fri, 16 May 2008, Ian Campbell wrote:
>> Some distributions (eg Fedora and Debian) seem to have Xen enabled
>> kernels for recent kernel versions, but I don''t know how they
got made
>> - I''d be interested to learn!
>
> Those kernels are currently domU (and 32 bit) only. Dom0 support for the
> paravirt kernels is being worked on by the Fedora guys for F10
> http://git.et.redhat.com/?p=linux-2.6-dom0-pvops.git;a=summary
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/XenPvopsDom0

Actually, Ubuntu 8.04 claims to offer a 2.6.24 kernel that can run on
64-bit, dom0 and domU.. from my 64-bit machine:

nc@nc-desktop:~$ apt-cache show linux-image-2.6.24-16-xen | grep ^Desc
Description: Linux kernel image for version 2.6.24 on This kernel can be used
for Xen dom0 and domU

I keep meaning to try it out, and then figure out where their patches came
from, but haven''t gotten to it yet.  ;)

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