[Xen-devel] Re: Summary of Xen/pv_ops changes/additions in upcoming Linux 2.6.28?

[Ferenc Wagner <wferi@xxxxxxx>]

Pasi KÃrkkÃinen <pasik@xxxxxx> writes:

> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:11:07AM +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>> Pasi KÃrkkÃinen <pasik@xxxxxx> writes:
>> 
>>> http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenParavirtOps
>> 
>> It says:
>> 
>> Xen/paravirt_ops has been in mainline Linux since 2.6.23, though it is
>> probably first usable in 2.6.24. While I wouldn't put it in production
>> just yet, for normal desktop/developer workloads it has proven to be
>> pretty stable.
>> 
>> Is this statement still well founded?
>
> Yeah, I guess that should be modified.. suggestions? 
>
> pv_ops based domU kernels are shipping at least in Fedora 9 and Fedora 10.. 
> how about other distributions? 

Debian Lenny will ship 2.6.26 kernel with save/restore/migration
patches backported from 2.6.27.  That also works OK.  I use the
686-bigmem flavour only, but others successully run the 64 bit version
AFAIK.
-- 
Feri.

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