[Fedora-xen] Xen 4.2 in rawhide

M A Young m.a.young at durham.ac.uk
Fri Oct 26 13:38:42 UTC 2012


On Fri, 26 Oct 2012, Dario Faggioli wrote:

> On Fri, 2012-10-26 at 00:06 +0100, M A Young wrote:
>> Xen has been updated to version 4.2.0 in rawhide. To get this to work Cole
>> Robinson has disabled libxl support in libvirt because libvirt doesn't yet
>> support the 4.2 updates to libxl.
>>
> So, just to be sure I understand this correctly, Fedora rh/18 will have
> Xen 4.2 and, if one whats to use it with libvirt, that would happen
> through XenD, right?

Yes, libvirt has two drivers (packaged separately in Fedora), xend and 
libxl. libvirt will still be able to use the xend driver in rawhide, but 
the libxl driver is disabled (ie. not built) in libvirt. I expect it would 
be easy to add back in once libvirt understands libxl 4.2 .

 	Michael Young


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