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Re: [Xen-users] Does xen 3.4.2 support EXT4 filesystem?



On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Nick Couchman <Nick.Couchman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> EXT4 is not part of Xen, it's part of the Linux kernel that runs in dom0 on 
> Xen.  Gentoo's Xen kernel should run fine on the Xen 3.4.2 tarball from the 
> Xen site.  Xen's site only has the 2.6.18 kernel, which probably does not 
> include EXT4.

>>>> On 2010/01/12 at 19:25, Yunfeng Xu <hywl51@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I currently use the xen-3.4.2 tarball from http://www.xen.org/. What
>> are the differences between officail version and the gentoo version?
>> Does it means the official version don't support the newer kernel
>> version with the mint8(2.6.31-14), so gentoo makes the patch?

For background info about Gentoo xen kernel, see this thread:
http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2009-04/msg00004.html

Basically the patches will apply to vanilla kernel, so it should work
with any distribution.
The mint kernel you mentioned (2.6.31-14) probably don't have xen dom0 support.

-- 
Fajar

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