Re: [Xen-users] Xen dom0 on debian, what is the most recent but stable solution?

["Joseph M. Deming" <joseph.deming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kernel seems to ALMOST work for me, but VIF interfaces seem positively
bugged beyond functional use.  See
http://bugzilla.xensource.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1612
for exact issue I am currently trying to work through.  The 2.6.26 as
dom0 kernel and any kernel up to 2.6.32-3 as domU I can verify works in
most environments.  Some newer hardware (SAS6 MegaRAID card for
instance) shipping with new Dells fail to boot the 2.26 dom0 kernel and
2.18 lacks driver support for it.

Just some random usability feedback from my own testing and usage, I
can't verify absolute stability or promise that my issues aren't simply
configuration-based, but that's my experience.

On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 19:02 +0300, Pasi KÃrkkÃinen wrote:
> On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 11:50:23AM -0400, Mike Viau wrote:
> >    > On Mon, 24 May 2010 15:13:00 +0300 <pasik@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >    >
> >    > Remember Linux 2.6.32 pvops dom0 kernels require at least Xen 4.0 to
> >    work properly.
> >    > Upcoming Xen 3.4.3 will (partly) support pvops dom0 kernels aswell..
> >    >
> > 
> >    Pasi, I thought that the xen 3.4.3 xen hypervisor was supposed to work on
> >    pvops kernels. I had a 2.6.32 pvops kernel working, altough some users
> >    reported problems on the list with this combination. I also believe 
> > 2.6.31
> >    pvops was tested to work as well. Personally 2.6.33 pvops is untested.
> > 
> 
> 2.6.31 pvops dom0 doesn't require the new IOAPIC related hypercalls.
> 
> 2.6.32 and newer pvops dom0 kernels require the new IOAPIC hypercalls from 
> Xen.
> Xen 4.0.0 was the first one to introduce that hypercall.
> 
> Some of the patches related to it are backported to Xen 3.4.3, but not all.
> 
> Based on the various discussion on xen-devel it seems Xen 3.4.3 + 2.6.32 
> pvops dom0
> works for some, and doesn't for others.
> 
> It's recommended to use Xen 4.0.0 + 2.6.32 pvops dom0, since that's the 
> supported
> and recommended configuration.
> 
> -- Pasi
> 
> >    -M
> > 
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