On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 05:55:47PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 09:41:26AM -0700, John Casey wrote:
> Can someone tell me or give me a pointer to the status of Xen on FC6 kernel
> 2.6.20.x? I've read about and experienced some serious instability on
> 2.6.20.x and was wondering when a stable release was expected. All of the
> threads I've read say to use Xen on 2.6.18, but since Xen is not a critical
> requirement for me, I'd like to wait until it comes out on 2.6.20 (or FC7)
> which ever comes first.
F7 is arriving real soon now and will be Xen 3.1.0 + 2.6.20 kernel. This
kernel will fix the 3 core kernel-xen bugs that are being experianced by
most people (one 32-bit data corruption issue, 2 SMP bugs).
We're going to apply these same patches to the FC6 kernel-xen which should
also resolve the stability issues seen on the FC6 2.6.20 builds. I don't
have an exact timeframe for this, but it should be in updates-testing at
least fairly soon.
By fairly soon, I in fact mean 'now' :-)
kernel-2.6.20-1.2952.fc6 has just hit updates-testing which has the following
fixes, so go forth & test...
* Tue May 15 2007 Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost(a)redhat.com> 1.2950
- Xen kernel: added patch to initialize pda properly on smp_prepare_cpus()
* Mon May 14 2007 Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost(a)redhat.com>
- Xen kernel: added patch from Stephen C. Tweedie. Fix crashes and
hangs, by making critical_fixup_table correct.
Dan.
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