Re: [Xen-users] 2.6.32 Kernel Debian

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 02:00:59PM -0300, Martinx - ?$B%8%'!<%`%: wrote:
>    Hi!
> 
>     For sure! I agree with you! Today I have, for the first time, the Xen,
>    the Linux (2.6.32.9 pvops dom0) and a composite enabled dom0 Desktop! I
>    can see that this mess from the past is going to change... But when?
>

Yep.. pv_ops dom0 is getting there!
 
>     The Debian team maybe can delay the freeze of the Squeeze for after the
>    release of the Xen 4.0 and the pvops dom0 support in mainline Linux?
> 

Just remember Xen is just one part of Debian, there are thousands of other
packages aswell. So I'm not sure if they'll decide release dates based only on 
Xen.

Also feel free to offer your help for the Debian kernel team and Xen 
maintenance team,
I'm sure they'll accept all the help they can get.

-- Pasi

>    -
>     Thiago
> 
>    On 18 March 2010 13:53, Olivier B. <[1]xen.list@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>      Hi,
> 
>      Well : who fix the security problems from the 2.6.18 ? And it doesn't
>      boot at all on modern hardware.
> 
>      Who use the dom0 kernel from lenny on production ? Me, at least on some
>      simple setup, and the pv_ops kernel on others setup.
>      If my actual pv_ops kernel is part of Squeeze, I really really be happy
>      to don't have to maintain it anymore.
> 
>      The pv_ops dom0 kernel is the futur of Xen, so it's logic that Debian
>      choose it for his *future* version.
> 
>      Olivier
> 
>      On 18/03/2010 17:43, Martinx - .$B%8%'!<%`%:.(B wrote:
> 
>        Hi!
> 
>         The Xen and the Linux 2.6.18.8-xen from [2]http://xen.org is a rock
>        solid.
> 
>         I REALLY do not understand why the Debian Xen Team just don't pack
>        the Linux 2.6.18.8-xen from [3]http://xen.org for Squeeze dom0, if
>        there are no stable options available out there.
> 
>         What is the point in make a hard work to get a unstable system? As
>        the Lenny (dom0) and the Hardy (dom0), for example?!? No one actually
>        are using it!
> 
>         I never use in a production environment, the Xen packaged from some
>        distribution. They always have a bug here and there... Then I am
>        forced to manually compile Xen and Linux from [4]xen.org and all my
>        problems go away as magic!
> 
>         And if Debian Squeeze works seamlessly with the Xen and the Linux
>        2.6.18.8-xen, I believe that the maintainers of the Xen in the Debian
>        SHOULD only pack the sources from [5]xen.org WITHOUT any significant
>        modifications. Of course, only when you want a dom0.
> 
>         Some will say that the Linux 2.8.18.8 is prehistoric but, then why
>        not use the same kernel used in the project XCP, the
>        kernel-2.6.27.42-0.1.1.xs0.1.1.737.1065.src.rpm for the Squeeze? It is
>        stable too and much more recent than the 2.6.18!
> 
>        Regards,
>        Thiago
> 
>        2010/3/18 Markus Hochholdinger <[6]Markus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
>          Hello,
> 
>          Am 17.03.2010 um 20:53 Uhr schrieb Martinx - .$B%8%'!<%`%:.(B
>          <[7]thiagocmartinsc@xxxxxxxxx>:
>          > Yeah!!! Great news!
>          >
>           
> [8]http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/linux-2.6/news/20100317T161016Z.html
>          >  linux-image-2.6.32-4-xen-686 - Linux 2.6.32 for modern PCs, Xen
>          dom0
>          > support
>          >  linux-image-2.6.32-4-xen-amd64 - Linux 2.6.32 for 64-bit PCs, Xen
>          dom0
>          > support
>          >  It will be a paravirt_ops or the SUSE port forward?!
> 
>          i'm not sure, it rumours it will be a pv_ops kernel. But till now
>          i've found
>          no definite information about that.
> 
>          Another info about the kernel:
>          
> [9]http://womble.decadent.org.uk/blog/debian-linux-packages-the-big-bang-release
> 
>          --
>          greetings
> 
>          eMHa
> 
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