On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 20:51 +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote: > Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Removal of OpenVZ, Vserver and Xen packages > > > > These are large and intrusive patches which require significant upstream > > effort to adapt to each new kernel version. As a result, they generally > > lag availability of new kernel versions and may take much longer to > > stabilise, so they can only be frozen some time after the standard > > kernel. > > > > There is also no guarantee that the upstream projects will continue to > > support the kernel version we release with. For example, official Xen > > releases are still based on 2.6.18 with huge changes (though they will > > apparently move to a newer version soon). Although we were able to use > > SUSE's forward-port of Xen to 2.6.26, SLE 11 was eventually released > > with 2.6.27 and so we are on our own with 2.6.26+Xen. Currently, no-one > > appears to be ready to maintain these variants in squeeze. > I'm pretty sure that you're referring to Xen *dom0*, since domU is > merged into mainline and even available into lenny's unpatched kernel > (i.e. the non-xen variant). Could you verify/clarify?
Correct.
> Also, I remember reading about an effort on merging dom0 to mailine.
> From your experience, is there a chance of that happening for 2.6.32?
I don't think so.
> (the version targetted for squeeze I presume?)
Given a December freeze, that is the likely version.
> If not, are there any plans of providing a migration path for our users
> like e.g. xenner?
I don't know. I don't maintain or use any virtualisation system myself.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
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