Re: Xen backports questions

["Barry BURNEREAU" <bburnereau@sqli.com>]

Thank's Jason

I was quite confused between the package version and the version of the software in it.

Barry

2008/5/3 Jason Lunz <lunz@acm.org>:

In gmane.linux.debian.backports.general, you wrote:
> My first question is : There is a xen-hypervisor-3.2-1-amd64 packet created
> before xen 3.2.1 has been released. Which version of xen hypervisor is it ?
> How could I know it ?

The package name contains the xen major version (3.2), but the actual
package version in backports is 3.2.0-3~bpo4+2. You can see this using
packages.debian.org, or with
"apt-cache show xen-hypervisor-3.2-1-amd64". The part before the - is
the upstream version, in this case "3.2.0".

> The second one is : Could I use the linux-image-2.6-amd64 packet
> (linux-image-2.6.22-4-amd64) with Xen. I've seen some people saying
> that xen was not enable in this kernel. Is it exact ? How could I know
> it ?

You need a kernel package with "xen" in the name.
linux-image-2.6-xen-amd64 is a metapackage that depends on the latest
debian xen kernel for amd64 (currently 2.6.18).

HTH, Jason