Re: Xen in AMD64

[Sarunas Burdulis <sarunas@math.dartmouth.edu>]

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Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> "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.

Including amd64, or just i386?

Sarunas

> MfG
>         Goswin
> 
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