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Re: Debian Kernel Group Meeting / Xen Dom0 support



On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 01:00:21AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 23:19 +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 01:31:06PM +0100, Vincent Sanders wrote:
> > > 
> > > xen dom 0
> > > +++++++++
> > > 
> > > Upstream development is splintered but Bastian Blank is willing to
> > > implement the patch for squeeze. Final decision on inclusion subject
> > > to building.
> > > 
> > 
> > Novell/OpenSUSE has forward-ported Xen (dom0) patches for 2.6.31 / 2.6.32 here:
> > ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/kernel/kotd/master/
> 
> We know.
> 

Yep.

> > Andrew Lyon has extracted the patches and made them to apply against
> > vanilla 2.6.31:
> > http://code.google.com/p/gentoo-xen-kernel/downloads/list
> 
> And Bastian Blank has done the same for Debian.
> 

Ok.

> > Announcement about 2.6.31 patches from Andrew Lyon:
> > http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2009-10/msg00342.html
> 
> The question remains open who will be willing and able to support them
> over the lifetime of a Debian release.  Bastian is still interested in
> supporting Xen dom0 but it's too much work for just one person.
>

I could most probably help (I seem to be working with Xen anyway).. 
but I'm not Debian developer..

> > > We also agreed to have a deprecation notice for Xen dom 0 as well as
> > > vserver into the Release Notes.
> > > 
> > > Action item for Luk Claes to add the deprecation notices to the
> > > Release Notes.
> > > 
> > 
> > So I guess that means the plan is to use the upstream pv_ops dom0
> > support in the future (after squeeze), which is still a work-in-progress? 
> 
> If this is accepted upstream then of course it will be in squeeze + 1.
> 

Good. There are a lot of Debian users on Xen related
mailinglists/discussion forums/irc.

-- Pasi


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