Final Release Criterion for Xen DomU

[Norman Gaywood]

On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 01:18:20PM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> 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?

> > Bug 550724 - xen PV guest kernel 2.6.32 processes lock up in D state
> .. which is fixed in 2.6.39 IMHO.

Yes.

> > 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

Great. I had not checked the later kernels. Sorry for the noise.

My main point is that a broken Xen DomU in the final release would be
a pain for me. Just wanted to add a +1.

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