Re: [Xen-users] patch for vanilla kernel

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:38:29AM -0800, Tom Brown wrote:
> 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 then you need to be using kernels that aren't 18 months out of date.
> 

2.6.18.8 is released 02/24/2007.. so just 12 months old :)

Other option is to use vendor supported kernels, for example RHEL5 and
CentOS5 (xen) kernels are based on 2.6.18 with all the security fixes and 
patches
included (back ported).

-- Pasi

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