On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 03:29:17PM +0000, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > Hi, > Fedora's Xen hackers have been working hard towards switching > our kernel-xen package from a forward-ported Xensource kernel tree to a > state-of-the-art upstream, paravirt_ops based, kernel in Fedora 9 as > described here: > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/XenPvops > http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2007-November/msg00106.html > > Some great progress has been made, and tomorrow's rawhide will > have a kernel-xen update with: > > + A very recent 2.6.25-rc4 base > > + Xen paravirt_ops DomU from upstream > > + x86_64 Xen paravirt_ops DomU support > > + Paravirt framebuffer > > However, although the Dom0 paravirt_ops work is well advanced at > this point, we still don't have backend drivers or x86_64 Dom0 working. > > With the feature freeze looming next week, we have make the > difficult decision to focus the Fedora 9 efforts on DomU and postpone > the inclusion of paravirt_ops Dom0 support. > First I'd like to thank you guys for doing this work. I think it's very important to get good Xen support working and integrated into upstream kernel. Was there some specific problem/bug about dom0 support (backend drivers and x86-64), or just not enough time? Thanks! -- Pasi -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen
