On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 7:12 PM, M A Young <m.a.young@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. I don't think backported drivers would be the right approach. There are several times where large backports of function have caused issues in the upgrade path or otherwise been painful. I won't comment on Xen overall, but it certainly doesn't seem like a suitable feature for F15. Best case I would recommend F16. josh _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel
