Virtualisation in Fedora status, jan 2005
The good news: - working Xen and kernel-xen0/U RPMs available in rawhide - grubby knows how to set up multiboot for the xen0 domain - people are starting to use the available RPMs - the network scripts now work in the presence of ipv6 - a Fedora project page on virtualisation is available: http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/virtualization/ - there is a HOWTO document, explaining how to set up Xen with Fedora http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraXenQuickstart
Bugs & limitations: - X does not work on many systems, and appears to cause memory corruption on others - current xen0/U guest kernels are single CPU only - #146571 xen gets stuck at boot with "APIC error on CPU0" - #146575 xen interferes with X acceleration - #142046 XEN Graphical bugs and application instability in Xen dom... - #140847 X inside Xen only works when linux/libint10.a is moved
TODO: - update to latest xen-unstable snapshot - apply the AGP patch, to try and remedy the X problems - build and test SMP xen0/U guest kernels - build and test xen and xen0/U kernels for x86-64
