Re: [Xen-users] Benchmarking GPL PV Drivers for Windows between0.9.11-pre13 and 0.10.0.69

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 06:05:15AM -0600, Nick Couchman wrote:
> Pasi,
> Thanks for putting that wiki page together for the dom0 kernels - it's
> something that has long been needed for pulling together information on
> those kernels.  I know it's always a chore for me to find info on how to
> get/build a dom0 kernel if I don't like the one that's included with a
> distribution.
>

Yep, that's what I thought too :)

Hopefully it helps people with dom0 kernels until pv_ops dom0 is merged
upstream and available in vanilla kernels..

-- Pasi
  
> Thanks!
> -Nick
> 
> >>> On 2009/07/07 at 00:50, Pasi Kärkkäinen<pasik@xxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 05:58:46PM -0400, jim burns wrote:
> > On Mon July 6 2009 11:00:28 am you wrote:
> > > > System: fc8 64bit, xen 3.1.2, xen.gz 3.1.4, dom0 2.6.21
> > >
> > > Have you tried with a newer Xen and dom0 kernel?
> > >
> > > -- Pasi
> > 
> > No. I'm a Fedora loyalist, since they are in the forefront of the
> pvops, and 
> > thus the future, direction of Xen. Unfortunately, they still don't
> have dom0 
> > support yet, so I'm stuck with F8. (Interesting thread last month on
> that - 
> > 'Xen is a feature'/'Merge Xen (the hypervisor) into Linux'. Thanx to
> whoever 
> > gated that into xen users.) It will be interesting to see if xen 3.4
> and a 
> > pvops dom0 have any effect, tho'.
> > 
> > This is also why I haven't really had a lot to say since last summer
> - nothing 
> > much has changed for me!
> > 
> 
> Ok. Fedora 11 now has Xen 3.3.1 hypervisor and tools, and it will
> receive
> 3.4.1 shortly after it has been released upstream (rawhide already has
> 3.4.0).
> 
> There are also pv_ops dom0 kernel RPMs for testing:
> http://fedorapeople.org/~myoung/dom0/
> 
> Also you might be interested of the wiki page I made yesterday:
> http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenDom0Kernels
> 
> I've been successfully using Fedora 10 and Fedora 11 with pv_ops dom0
> myself..
> there are still some bugs and issues, some bigger changes still need to
> be
> done to get accepted upstream, but it's already in a state where you
> can
> definitely beta test it :)
> 
> > Nice to see you are still around!
> 
> You too :)
> 
> -- Pasi
> 
> 
> 
> 
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