Dor Laor wrote: > On 11/08/2010 04:55 AM, M A Young wrote: > >> I am trying to work out whether it is practical to propose Dom0 xen >> support as a feature for Fedora 15. >> >> The kernel situation is that Domain 0 has been accepted upstream for >> 2.6.37. Assuming a 3 month kernel release cycle, F15 will most likely ship >> with a 2.6.37.x kernel, with 2.6.38 coming out either after the F15 >> release or just before but too late to be included. If the plan to get key >> xen drivers into 2.6.38 succeeds, then F15 may be become usable as a >> Domain 0 system at some point during its lifetime as the kernel package in >> a Fedora version typically has one major update. >> >> If the kernel team accept backported patches then it might just be >> possible to ship F15 with usable Domain 0 support but the timescale for >> that would be very tight. >> >> The other thing we would need to consider is what needs to be done to make >> xen friendly enough to be usable by an ordinary user. The page >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/XenPvopsDom0 contains plans from >> when dom0 xen support was expected to make a quick return to Fedora, but >> they are a couple of years old now so probably need updating. >> >> I think as a minimum we would need a way to add a dom0 enabled grub entry >> for a kernel, rather than requiring the user to hand edit the grub file. >> We should also make sure that xen works with the other Fedora >> virtualisation tools. >> >> What do others think about this? For example is it achievable as a >> feature, is it too early and better to wait for F16, and what else should >> we aim to do to make xen usable in Fedora? >> > Have you consider kvm? it's upstream since 2.6.20 and now its more ready > than ever. > There are some good tutorials which should explain the difference between xen and kvm, particularly the performance and hardware requirements of each. -- Bill Davidsen<davidsen@xxxxxxx> "We can't solve today's problems by using the same thinking we used in creating them." - Einstein -- xen mailing list xen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen
