Re: [Xen-devel] Several questions from a freshman to Xen

["Zhengwang Ruan (Royo)" <zhengwang.ruan@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2011å10æ14æ 02:42, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 11:51:01PM +0800, Zhengwang Ruan (Royo) wrote:
> > Hi Guys,
> >
> > I am new man with some confusions to this amazing technology, hope
> > you guys give answers to help me better understand Xen. :)
> >
> > 1, You guys have been working on developing many releases, do you
> > guys have agreements on developing every source code based on a
> > fixed linux kernel version before starting a new release? If so, how
> No.
> > could I know the corresponding kernel version to a given xen
> > release? I tried to find answer for myself on the following wiki
> > page, but it is not latest enough.
> Anything past 3.0 kernel should work. Every Linux kernel release
> we fix bugs and add new features.
They are the kernel releases in the git repository

http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen.git

?


> Look in Paravirt Wiki for the roadmap of what we want to
> have in 3.2 and 3.3 Linux kernel.
See, really good roadmap!


> > http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/DistributionSupport
> >
> > 2, I found some interesting source files in xen-4.1.1 release, I
> > listed them below:
> >
> > $ ll
> > drwx------ 4 royo royo 16384 2011-10-12 00:20 arch/
> > drwx------ 5 royo royo 16384 2011-06-15 00:03 common/
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 royo royo 19185 2011-06-15 00:03 COPYING
> > drwx------ 2 royo royo 16384 2011-06-15 00:03 crypto/
> > drwx------ 8 royo royo 16384 2011-06-15 00:03 drivers/
> > drwx------ 9 royo royo 16384 2011-06-15 00:03 include/
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 royo royo  5529 2011-06-15 00:03 Makefile
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 royo royo  3498 2011-06-15 00:03 Rules.mk
> > drwx------ 3 royo royo 16384 2011-06-15 00:03 tools/
> > drwx------ 4 royo royo 16384 2011-06-15 00:03 xsm/
> >
> > Are these files going to replace or be added to linux kernel source
> > while making dm0? I am amazed that this release can be installed to
> Why would they?
Sorry, I misunderstood xen-4.1.1 as part of dom0, and would be merged 
into kernel to produce a dom0, but I know I was wrong. :)
Thanks,
Royo


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