[fedora-virt] Fedora virt status

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 08:21:40AM -0500, Justin M. Forbes wrote:
> 
> Fedora 16
>  It is time to start planning for the Fedora 16 release.  What features are
>  going to be proposed?  What does the community want to see from Fedora 16
>  virtualiation?
> 

Xen dom0 support out-of-the-box with the vanilla fedora kernel! 

Mainline Linux (2.6.40-rcX) already contains the "last missing bit",
which is the xen-blkback backend block device driver.

Linux 2.6.39 added xen-netback driver, and the 'xen dom0 core' was merged in 2.6.37.
More info/changelog here: http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/XenParavirtOps

-- Pasi