On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 07:33:03PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 09:28:05PM +0200, Pasi K?rkk?inen wrote: > > 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? > > Simply lack of time - stability of DomU is of most importance because we > can't change the $INSTALL_TREE/images/xen/{vmlinux,initrd.img} once F9 > is released. So we need to prioritize DomU support. Pushing out a new > kernel to add Dom0 is trivial post-GA since it doesn't impact installer > images. > Yep. Thanks for the update! When is fedora 10 rawhide expected to open? Meaning when we can start testing kernel-xen with dom0 support :) -- Pasi -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen
