Bodek
2006-Mar-12 20:27 UTC
[Xen-users] Xen3.0x support of anything other than linux 2.6.x
Hi, hope I can get sbd from xen to comment on this? would appreciate, especially if I am wrong somewhere. Story: I have been trying to get xenU guest running centos3 with 2.4 kernel. I have followed infos on this site and mailing-list stating that xen3.0 does not suport 2.4 kernels, but I should be able to get the 2.4 kernel working as xen2.0 guest(domU) under xen3.0 host(dom0). To my big suprise when I finally managed to put all pieces together I got the following when starting centos domU: (in xend-debug.log): ERROR: will only load images built for 3.0 Very nice! :-((((( But....could we then stop the hype about how great Xen is and about all these OSes it supports? It is simply not true! Could you guys say in visible place (like page1 of the xen manual) that "Xen3.0 nowadays does not support anything anymore except kernel 2.6"!? And that "if you want anything else (support for all those linux24, netbsd, solaris, freebsd..), then you have to run xen2.07, but then again - here you go, here are the limitations - not maintained anymore, no support for anything than one 2.4 kernel and one 2.6 kernel" and so on... I think this is quite unfair that there is no information about this anywhere! What else... what choice do I have now? reverting to Xen2.07? I have been running 2.6 distro since early versions of 2.6 kernel, so no way I am going to try it with 2.4 kernel - I am not a fan of time-travels. On the other side I see the last 2.6 version supported by Xen2.07 is 2.6.12 and I think everybody here knows very well how bad that kernel release was. so again - no-no-no-no... To be honest - if I this all above is correct - you guys made a step backward with version 3.0. I really dont see how year 2006 would then be "Xen Year" (saw this on the web - some "very well informed" gave his article a title in this sense) Rgds, Bogdan _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Heiko Wundram
2006-Mar-13 14:21 UTC
Re: [Xen-users] Xen3.0x support of anything other than linux 2.6.x
Am Sonntag, 12. März 2006 21:27 schrieb Bodek:> To be honest - if I this all above is correct - you guys made a step > backward with version 3.0. I really dont see how year 2006 would then be > "Xen Year" (saw this on the web - some "very well informed" gave his > article a title in this sense)Xen 3 support for other operating systems (read that, operating systems, not kernel versions) beside Linux 2.6 is in the works, the Xen 3 architecture is barely three months old, so get a grip on yourself and stop whining. This is an open source project after all, so go do it yourself if you''re not satisfied. Why''d you want to run a 2.4 kernel anyways? Even with CentOS? -- --- Heiko. _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Harald Koenig
2006-Mar-24 12:56 UTC
Re: [Xen-users] Xen3.0x support of anything other than linux 2.6.x
On Mar 13, Heiko Wundram wrote:> Am Sonntag, 12. März 2006 21:27 schrieb Bodek: > > To be honest - if I this all above is correct - you guys made a step > > backward with version 3.0. I really dont see how year 2006 would then be > > "Xen Year" (saw this on the web - some "very well informed" gave his > > article a title in this sense) > > Xen 3 support for other operating systems (read that, operating systems, not > kernel versions) beside Linux 2.6 is in the works, the Xen 3 architecture is > barely three months old, so get a grip on yourself and stop whining. This is > an open source project after all, so go do it yourself if you''re not > satisfied. > > Why''d you want to run a 2.4 kernel anyways? Even with CentOS?same problem for me: I''d like to run (among other Linux distros) e.g. RH 7.1, RHEL-3, SUSE 9.0 etc. on a (virtual) build server to compile software for those platforms... so far we''ve tried to run SUSE 9.0 with xen 2.6.x kernel but nfstools failed to work, so right now I still need "real" machines for those 2.4.x based platforms :-( Harald Koenig -- "I hope to die ___ _____ before I *have* to use Microsoft Word.", 0--,| /OOOOOOO\ Donald E. Knuth, 02-Oct-2001 in Tuebingen. <_/ / /OOOOOOOOOOO\ \ \/OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO\ \ OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO|// Harald Koenig \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ science+computing ag // / \\ \ koenig@science-computing.de ^^^^^ ^^^^^ _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Daniel Veillard
2006-Mar-27 16:13 UTC
Re: [Xen-users] Xen3.0x support of anything other than linux 2.6.x
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 01:56:04PM +0100, Harald Koenig wrote:> On Mar 13, Heiko Wundram wrote: > > > Am Sonntag, 12. März 2006 21:27 schrieb Bodek: > > > To be honest - if I this all above is correct - you guys made a step > > > backward with version 3.0. I really dont see how year 2006 would then be > > > "Xen Year" (saw this on the web - some "very well informed" gave his > > > article a title in this sense) > > > > Xen 3 support for other operating systems (read that, operating systems, not > > kernel versions) beside Linux 2.6 is in the works, the Xen 3 architecture is > > barely three months old, so get a grip on yourself and stop whining. This is > > an open source project after all, so go do it yourself if you''re not > > satisfied. > > > > Why''d you want to run a 2.4 kernel anyways? Even with CentOS? > > same problem for me: I''d like to run (among other Linux distros) > e.g. RH 7.1, RHEL-3, SUSE 9.0 etc. on a (virtual) build server > to compile software for those platforms... > > so far we''ve tried to run SUSE 9.0 with xen 2.6.x kernel but nfstools failed to work, > so right now I still need "real" machines for those 2.4.x based platforms :-(if it''s just for compiling, i.e. time is not critical, QEmu should be just fine for this. Compared to the task of trying to get a paravirtualized RH-7.1 kernel up and running, you probably have a better use of your time :-) Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat http://redhat.com/ veillard@redhat.com | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users