Re: [fedora-virt] Fedora and Xen.
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