Re: [Xen-users] Xen patch for Linux 2.6.22 / 2.6.23

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 05:20:17PM +0000, Mark Williamson wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> > Is there any progress to have Linux 2.6.22 or 2.6.23 as dom0/domU or I
> > miss something ?
> > Is there any web site describe patching procedure ?
> > Currently I use xen-unstable repo.
> 
> Some distros (e.g. Fedora) forward-port the Xen patches to newer kernels.  I 
> believe Fedora 8 has a Xenified kernel derived from 2.6.22, for instance.
> 
> Mainline kernel.org Linux has had basic (but limited in some ways) domU 
> support since 2.6.23 and it is being improved in subsequent releases.  
> 2.6.23's support for Xen was new and a few bugs showed up; at least some of 
> these were fixed in 2.6.23.y stable releases.
> 
> I've been working on a howto at 
> http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Kernel.org_Linux_on_Xen
> 
> This howto attempts to describe how to build and run a kernel.org kernel on 
> Xen.  These instructions may contain errors though, so be careful ;-)
> 

Thanks for writing this howto!

Maybe you could add a line or two about current dom0-pvops work being done
by redhat.. which aims to add all missing xen features to vanilla kernel.org 
kernels. 

This work should appear in Fedora 9. There has been announcements about the
progress on xen-devel list, I think.

-- Pasi

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