On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 06:01:30PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 06:05:14PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > I think the first question to resolve is to establish that it *is* > > > supported... > > > I think that the prudent thing for Debian to do is to continue to > > support the older kernel if that is the only way to ensure Xen support > > for the users. I personally have a few servers running Xen that run > > stable. If the support for Xen in a stable release is not suitable, I > > would have to consider migrating those servers to some other distro. I > > would really hate to have to do that. > > The distro used on dom0 is pretty uninteresting, given that part of the > point of having Xen-style virtualization for servers is to a) be able to run > different OSes in different guests, and b) not to run services in dom0.[1] > > If the Debian security team is unwilling or unable to provide support for a > 2.6.18 kernel over the lifetime of lenny, I'm happy to see us let dom0 be > Somebody Else's Problem. I'm certainly happier with that than having us > /claim/ to support 2.6.18, have users rely on that claim, and then not be > able to deliver. > While agree that from a technical standpoint, that distro is rather uninteresting, I don't want to have increase the complexity of the networks I administer by bringing yet another distro into the mix. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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