Re: [Xen-users] patch for vanilla kernel

[Tom Brown <xensource.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 07:39:54PM +0200, Subredu Manuel wrote:
> >  Hi,
> >
> >  I'm struggling for more than a week now, to build a 2.6.22.18 vanilla
> > kernel with xen support. I've read all the information sources related
> > to this issue that I have found, and still no solution for this
> > (theoretically) simple issue.
> >  Can someone please point me into the right direction ? I'm really stuck .
> Official Xen releases contain Xenlinux patches only for Linux 2.6.18 kernel.
>
> Some distributions have forward ported these patches to newer kernels, but
> they tend to have more bugs and less testing..
>
> So I'd recommend you to use the official 2.6.18 kernels.
I can not agree with that. If you're messing around on your desktop 
machine, ok... you've already got root and you are the only user... 
security patches aren't important in that scenario ... but if you're 
providing real services to real users, and you don't want some script 
kiddie wiping out your box starting from a PHP or SQL injection exploit, 
then you need to be using kernels that aren't 18 months out of date.
Unfortunately, xensource doesn't really seem to be interested in making 
building easy, or even in packaging things anymore :(  Personally, I'd 
like to see someone fork the project so that we can get a system that's 
easier to build and works against a more current kernel... but I don't 
have the time :(
-Tom

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