On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 16:53 -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > Hi folks, > > There was a thread here a little while back about the status of Xen in > future Debian releases. It left me rather confused, and I'm hoping to > find some answers (which I will then happily document in the wiki). You're asking on the wrong list - this is a topic for debian-kernel. > According to http://wiki.debian.org/SystemVirtualization : > > "Qemu and KVM - Mostly used on Desktops/Laptops" > > "VirtualBox - Mostly used on Desktops/Laptops" > > "Xen - Provides para-virtualization and full-virtualization. Mostly used > on servers. Will be abandoned after squeeze." > > The Xen page on the wiki makes no mention of this. > > So, I am wondering about our direction in this way: > > 1) Will a squeeze system be able to run the Xen hypervisor? A Xen dom0? Maybe. Ian Campbell and Bastian Blank are working on it. > 2) Will a squeeze system be able to be installed as a Xen domU with a > lenny dom0? What about squeeze+1? lenny's xen-flavour kernels (needed for dom0, optional for domU) are not supportable even now. [...] > 5) Do we recommend that new installations of lenny or of squeeze avoid > Xen for ease of upgrading to squeeze+1? If so, what should they use? [...] I would discourage use of the xen-flavour in lenny. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I'm always amazed by the number of people who take up solipsism because they heard someone else explain it. - E*Borg on alt.fan.pratchett
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