On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:53:48PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > As I'm sure you know there is no Xen domain 0 kernel present in Lenny. I > think we are currently recommending that people who require a Xen domain > 0 stick with the Etch kernel on a Lenny userspace/hypervisor until > "Lenny and a half" at which point we hope dom0 (and 64 bit) support will > be in the paravirt ops kernel. (is there consensus on this in the kernel > team?)
hey Ian! I'm not aware of any well-formed consensus yet - though there are several ideas. I'll caveat this by saying I don't follow Xen development at all, and didn't participate in the previous thread about this (very busy at the time), but I do think the approach that would be best for our users is to ship a 2.6.18-based kernel in lenny - aka, Bastian's Option 5: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/07/msg00476.html The problem is that I can pretty much guarantee that I'll not have time to actively security support this kernel - and as such, we'd need someone to step up to help with that kernel. I'd be happy to work with 1-2 people to get them up to speed on working with the kernel, share patches, etc. > With that in mind what level of updates would we be willing to accept > into an update of the Etch kernel to make this work? > > I'm particularly thinking of > http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-unstable.hg?rev/c9ac0bace498 which is > pretty much a pure feature patch but will allow a 64 bit domain 0 to > speak disk to 32 bit guests. This is quite handy given Lenny only > supports 32 bit guests... > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121959036719825 Since its neither a >= important bug for etch, nor obviously safe for existing installs, I don't think it'd be an option for 'etch'. Its definitely more suited for the mythological lenny-specific 2.6.18. > If this is unacceptable (probably?) then are there any other > options/plans/ideas for providing an updated 2.6.18 domain 0 kernel? I > hear Bastian has a repo somewhere? Yeah, he maintains a branch under people/waldi, iirc. Not sure where the builds are though. -- dann frazier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
