On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 12:09:51PM -0600, Tim Flink wrote: > Since the beta criterion for running Fedora as a Xen guest (DomU) was > removed for Fedora 16, there has been some discussion [1] [2] on test@ > about whether or not we should add it back for Fedora 16 final. The old > criterion read: > > The release must boot successfully as a virtual guest in a situation > where the virtual host is running a supported Xen implementation > It's good to remember Fedora 16 will have Xen Dom0 (host) support again! (The previous Fedora release with Xen dom0 was Fedora 8). Xen dom0 support has been merged to upstream Linux kernel, and more features (ang bugfixes) are being added in every upstream kernel release now. So F16 Xen VM on F16 Xen dom0 is possible.. and F17 Xen domU on F16 dom0, and of course any other distro VM on F16.. I believe F16 will also run on RHEL5 Xen dom0 now that the missing xen-kbdfront bug has been fixed in F16 lorax. (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=740657) > As it stands, we are leaning towards accepting it as at least an NTH > criteria for Fedora 16. This means that any Xen guest issues would > become at least NTH (ability to update past code freeze, does not > block release) for final. The reasons listed are: > > - If Fedora is not usable as a Xen guest at release time, it will not > be possible to use the released install media to create Xen guests. > This is not fixable through updates > - Several cloud platforms (EC2, Linode etc.) use Xen in their > platforms. It is possible that issues preventing the usage of Fedora > as a Xen guest could affect the ability to use Fedora on those > platforms. > > Are there any objections to moving forward with this? There seems to be > no objections from the kernel maintainers who have been participating > in the discussion on test@ but we wanted a bit more devel input before > moving forward. > Yep, Xen domU (both PV and PVHVM) should be release criteria for F16 RC and Final! -- Pasi -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
