I am trying to work out whether it is practical to propose Dom0 xen support as a feature for Fedora 15. The current situation is that patches to allow a kernel to boot as a xen Domain 0 are in 2.6.37 but they aren't enough to run a reasonable xen guest system from it. The xen developers are aiming to get enough drivers accepted in 2.6.38 so that you can run at least basic guest machines. Given the roughly 3 month kernel release cycle, I would expect Fedora 15 to ship with a 2.6.37.x kernel, with 2.6.38 coming out at around the time of the Fedora 15 release but too late for it to be included, and that Fedora 15 will move to 2.6.38 at some later point. Thus Fedora 15 should be usable as a xen Domain 0 at some point in its life cycle. However for xen dom0 support to be a Fedora 15 feature we would really need to have the appropriate drivers in the kernel when Fedora 15 ships, so my main question is how likely is it that backported xen drivers would be accepted into the Fedora kernel? I would also be interested in any other comments on this proposal. Michael Young _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel
