Final Release Criterion for Xen DomU

Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk konrad.wilk at oracle.com
Mon Oct 3 17:18:20 UTC 2011


On Sun, Oct 02, 2011 at 01:22:38PM +1100, Norman Gaywood wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 12:23:08PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 10:41 -0600, Tim Flink wrote:
> > > Specifically, do we want to have Xen DomU support as a final release
> > > criteria?
> 
> Just my 2c. I use Fedora Xen DomU and will be hoping to run F16 that way
> when it's released.
> 
> Currently using F14 and it's solid after the awful start with:
> 
> Bug 550724 - xen PV guest kernel 2.6.32 processes lock up in D state

.. which is fixed in 2.6.39 IMHO.
> 
> What would be also useful is to be able to have guests larger than 32G
> without rebuilding the kernel.

Hm, that ought to work (2.6.39 and later) ? Do you have a BZ for this?
The default limit is 128G:

CONFIG_XEN_MAX_DOMAIN_MEMORY=128


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