On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 05:38:30PM +0100, Robert Scheck wrote: > On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > > release. Period. I know that the current build infrastructure doesn't > > do this but this only means it has to change. We have virtualization > > available, there is no excuse. > > Well, we're doing AFAIK only lazy virtualization AKA para-virtualization on > our build systems, so we're using the same kernel on host system and on the > virtual machines. There is no such restriction with Xen paravirtualization. The host & guest kernel have no need to be running the same version. The hypervisor ABI, and device ABI is what is fixed & this is independant of kernel version. You are thinking of container based virtualization where there is no separate guest kernel. Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -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 :| -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
