[fedora-virt] [Fedora-xen] Dom0 xen support in Fedora 15?

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 08:39:46AM +0000, M A Young wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Bill McGonigle wrote:
> 
> > On 11/07/2010 03:55 PM, M A Young wrote:
> >> If the plan to get key
> >> xen drivers into 2.6.38 succeeds
> >
> > With the caveat that I don't really know what I'm looking for, I didn't see 
> > these make 2.6.38-rc1 (plenty of other Xen work, though).  I saw a proposed 
> > patch for netback hit xen-devel yesterday.
> 
> There was talk of userland netback and blkback in xen 4.1 which use the 
> gntdev interface which did make it into 2.6.38 (userland blkback 
> apparently gives the similar performance as the kernel one, netback is 
> not as good). I am not sure of the details though, nor how you might use 
> them if they are available.

Xen folks worked to give QEMU a userland netback/blkback implementation,
but I don't believe this functionality is integrated into the mgmt stack
at this time, so likely not much use yet.

Daniel