On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 02:17:55PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 09:01:54AM -0400, Alvin Starr wrote:
Is there an expected time line when Xen will make it back in the Fedora/RH kernel?
So before we start the flame war over KVM vs Xen. I have had nothing but bad luck with KVM and having spent years using xen and have gotten use to its "quirks".
The policy hasn't changed since we originally removed Xen. The Xen userspace continues to be distributed, and Fedora can run as a Xen guest. The Xen dom0 host kernel will be considered for re-introduction once it is merged in the mainline upstream kernel trees. The latter is still actively being pursued by the Xen community & developers but there's no firm ETA since LKML can be somewhat unpredictable :-)
Yeah, it has taken pretty long :)
Some important bits got into Linux 2.6.36, and more should go into 2.6.37. Slowly..
Upstream has a long-term maintained dom0-capable kernel git tree based on Linux 2.6.32, and will soon start tracking 2.6.36.
Michael has been building Fedora (f12) xendom0 kernel rpms.
Links: http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenParavirtOps http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenDom0Kernels http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Xen4.0 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/XenPvopsDom0
-- Pasi