Re: Xen in AMD64
"niko" <niko@ornia.hampshire.edu> writes:
> I run Debian Sid compiled for amd64 with kernel version 2.6.22-1.
> Pepo with respect to your questions about the Xen hypervisor, there
> are hypervisor packages compiled for amd64 in both Etch and Sid, but
> not Lenny. Unfortunately, to further complicate things, it seems that
> the only branch which has an actual precompiled Xen kernel is Etch.
>
> This is quite frustrating seeing as if any Lenny or Sid users want to
> run Debian as either a dom0 or domU guest and not have to compile
> anything manually, they must revert back to the Etch 2.6.18 kernel.
> If anyone could shed some light on why the Xen kernel images were
> dropped from all but Etch, that would be great. I'd like to run
> Debian as a dom0 host OS on my workstation, and it would be nice if
> there were Xen kernel packages available that have been made more
> recently than Etch's 2.6.18.
Lack of patches for the most recent kernel.
There are patches for 2.6.20 and 2.6.21 (unstable I hear) but you have
to get them yourself and build your own kernel.
Since the kernel source and images are unified into one package
anything that can't keep up with the most recent kernel gets
droped. Isn't it great?
There will be some improvement though in 2.6.23 as xen domU support
gets merged in upstream.
MfG
Goswin
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