Release Criteria Proposal: Xen DomU

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Thu Oct 13 19:03:02 UTC 2011


On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 12:54 -0600, Tim Flink wrote:
> After discussions both here and on devel@, there have been no
> objections to adding Xen DomU (guest) support as a release criterion for
> Fedora 16.
> 
> So, I am proposing that we add the following as a release criterion for
> Fedora 16 final:
> 
>  - The release must boot successfully as Xen DomU with releases
>    supporting Xen Dom0 and cloud providers utilizing Xen.
> 
> If accepted as a release criterion, Xen DomU (not Dom0) issues will
> block the release of Fedora.
> 
> Thoughts on blocker/NTH? Changes to wording? I'd like to get this
> resolved this week since we're already cutting things a bit close here
> if it is accepted as a release criteria.

'With releases supporting Xen Dom0' is slightly vague but probably good
enough for now. I'm not exactly sure what we want to say about the Dom0;
I think the concept is that DomU functionality shouldn't be broken,
anything that's a bug on the Dom0 level isn't a blocker issue, right?
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