Re: [Xen-users] Xen substituting UML

["M.A. Williamson" <maw48@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Much thankful by your attention. Forgives me all of this list for my bad
> English. Then it wants to say that the efforts now are in other sectors of
> the Xen project?! A colleague of a list (linux-br@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
> spoke here that the Xen does not support above of 4 GB of RAM. That is
> truth?
Xen 2.0 doesn't support more than 4GB of RAM, that is correct.

Xen 3.0 will support > 4GB on 32 bit x86 systems using PAE mode. > 4GB on 
x86_64 will Just Work.
Cheers,
Mark


> Greetings,
>
> Leonardo Pinto.
>
>
> > When finally the Xen will substitute the UML. I heard to speak that it
> > would be from Kernel 2.6.10.
> >
> > Some news sites were reporting Xen had been merged around that timeframe
> but
> > it's not entirely clear why they thought that - probably one of them got
> it
> > wrong and all the others copied them ;-)
> >
> > Nobody's exactly planning to substitute Xen for UML in the mainline. 
> > I'd
> say
> > Xen is likely to get merged into some kind of "official" kernel in the
> next
> > couple of releases (i.e. either -mm or the mainline - not sure what the
> plan
> > is).  After this point UML and Xen will coexist in the kernel for the
> > foreseeable future.
> >
> > In preparation for this, some restructuring is being done to the Xen 
> > architecture code to make it more palatable to the kernel developers by 
> > maximising common code with the x86 and x86_64 architectures - this 
> > should make maintaining the Xen code easier. After that it'll get 
> > submitted for merging.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Mark
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > Leonardo Pinto.
>
>
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