Dom0 xen support in Fedora 15?

Gerd Hoffmann kraxel at redhat.com
Wed Nov 10 15:45:20 UTC 2010


   Hi,

>>> What's the overhead?
>>
>> Just some xen specific drivers below drivers/xen/
>
> For dom0?

Yes.  The host backend drivers for guest devices.  It is just the last 
piece to have a useful xen host, everything else has been merged 
upstream already.  2.6.37 already can run xen guests without network and 
storage devices.

> Do we need to build yet another flavour of kernel?

No.  The standard kernel which can run as domU (aka xen guest) for a 
long time will be able to run as dom0 (xen host) too.  Just some config 
options need to be enabled.

cheers,
   Gerd


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