Xen Dom0 support getting dropped?

Josh Boyer jwboyer at gmail.com
Tue Aug 19 16:11:51 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 11:56 -0400, David A. Wheeler wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 12:49:53PM +0300, Ahmed Kamal wrote:
> > Too bad eh, my understanding is that Xen dom0 was totally dropped off F10,
> > and redhat is pushing KVM full steam.
> 
> "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones at redhat.com>
> >That's not entirely true. You should look at this page to see what's going on:
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/XenPvopsDom0
> 
> I looked at that page, and that page's text seems pretty clear that
> Xen dom0 _IS_ getting dropped.  Perhaps the page is wrong? I'm concerned;
> I have systems that _depend_ on Xen (specifically) running Dom0, on both
> 32-bit and 64-bit, and thus I already can't upgrade them to F9.
> 
> Here's what I read from that page. How can I read this text
> in any way other than "users of Xen dom0 are doomed :-)" ?

There are other options for Xen Dom0.  RHEL5, or Fedora 8.  I don't know
if CentOS carries Xen, but it might.

josh




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