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Re: Xen question



Anders Breindahl schreef:
> On 200805291708, Stephen Gran wrote:
>> This one time, at band camp, Paul van der Vlis said:
>>> I have some questions about Xen:
>>>
>>> - I have installed an AMD64 Xen machine with Etch. In unstable I don't
>>> see Xen-AMD64 kernels anymore. Is there a change that Xen-AMD64 support
>>> will be dropped?
>> Kernels > 2.6.18 do not support Xen dom0 on any architecture, as far as
>> I'm aware.
> 
> I second that. There's a Redhat effort to make a dom0-able kernel. So
> far there's (has been?) a .20-series domU-kernel in unstable for i386.
> 
> In fact, the situation is so grave that people are considering
> contingency plans. It could seem that Xen is dying slowly -- I'm not
> saying it is, but I'm saying it seems to be.

Oeps, a serious thing...

I saw Ubuntu has Xen support in kernel 2.6.24 (in "universe", so no
security support).
http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/linux-image-2.6.24-16-xen

> For further such issues, the pkg-xen-devel list on alioth should be
> visited.

I am a member, but there is not so much responce on that list.

With regards,
Paul van der Vlis.




-- 
http://www.vandervlis.nl/


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