Xen dom0 (core) merged to upstream Linux 2.6.37 and other new features

2010-10-30 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
Hello, People here might be interested to know that Xen pvops dom0 core was merged to upstream Linux kernel during the 2.6.37 merge window! This has been in the works for a long time, so it's good news. Note that this is the core/initial merge, there's more upstreaming needed to get for example

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Graphics driver fixes for squeeze kernel-xen ?

2010-08-23 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 01:16:20AM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 10:27:16PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 23:52 +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 09:28:32PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > > > >

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Graphics driver fixes for squeeze kernel-xen ?

2010-08-21 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 10:27:16PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 23:52 +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 09:28:32PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > > > Please send such mails to the maintainer of the package, not me. > > > &g

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Graphics driver fixes for squeeze kernel-xen ?

2010-08-21 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 09:28:32PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > Please send such mails to the maintainer of the package, not me. > > On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 08:55:33PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > Is there a plan to update the dom0-capable kernel to the latest > > ve

Re: Bug#516374 Help with Xen kernel

2010-03-25 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 03:58:57PM +0100, Markus Hochholdinger wrote: > Hello, > > > There's a lot of people using Xen and Debian, how is the best solution > > for a stable (production) kernel? (Xen+Lenny) ? Use the 2.6.32-10-xen > > sid kernel in production servers?!? > > i use plain lenny for m

Bug#534880: SLES11 Xen patches

2010-01-25 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
Hello, Debian Lenny linux-image-2.6.26-2-xen uses an early snapshot of Novell SLES11 patches, so I guess someone would have to go through the SLES11 kernel-xen patches and see what has changed.. I believe SLES11 Xen patches have numerous bugfixes compared to what is in Lenny. ftp://ftp.suse.com

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-07 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 11:06:56AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 03 Jan 2010, William Pitcock wrote: > > > That was opposed quite strongly by the kernel folks last time it was > > > attempted. Were there any fundamental changes in the Xen dom0 patches > > > since then? > > >

Re: Nouveau kernel driver

2010-01-06 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 02:50:12PM +, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 15:44:54 +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > > It's worth noting that Fedora 12 already ships Nouveau, with 2.6.31 kernel. > > > It's worth noting that RH has a number of peo

Re: Nouveau kernel driver

2010-01-06 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 11:33:49PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 22:15 +, Chris Lamb wrote: > > Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > > I'd like to pull nouveau from 2.6.33 into Debian's 2.6.32. I'm hoping > > > this would allow for replacement of nv and its dodgy source with nou

Bug#563605: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-amd64: Intel VT flags missing on Q45 chipset

2010-01-04 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 12:39:00AM +, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: > Package: linux-2.6 > Version: 2.6.32-3 > Severity: normal > > I don't seem to have the CPU flags for Intel virtualisation from the processor > to run KVM, Xen and friends. I double-checked the BIOS and virtualisation > is enable

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 07:33:07PM +0100, Gabor Gombas wrote: > On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 06:31:20PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > > So the change has happened, lthough it took painfully long to get the > > upstream Linux pv_ops framework in shape and all that.. and obviou

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 11:23:28AM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 01:21:55AM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > I believe we will have Xen hypervisor and Linux dom0 packages, > > The hypervisor works well, but the Linux Dom0 packages are not available > yet, upstream is again f

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 10:46:38AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sun, 3 Jan 2010 16:55:27 +1100, Brian May > wrote: > >Like I said previously, I think dropping Xen support is a mistake because KVM > >requires QEMU and QEMU seems to have a reputation of being insecure. > > Xen is unsupportable due

Re: Debian Kernel Group Meeting

2009-10-28 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 07:56:20PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 08:13:27PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > pv_ops dom0 patches will require more maintenance than the forward-ports > > though.. since it's not yet feature-complete, and will have many &

Re: Debian Kernel Group Meeting

2009-10-27 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 10:27:28AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 11:06 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 08:53:39AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > > On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 11:45 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > > > > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 01:31:06PM +0100,

Re: Debian Kernel Group Meeting / Xen dom0

2009-10-21 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:45:52AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 01:31:06PM +0100, Vincent Sanders wrote: > > xen dom 0 > > + > > Upstream development is splintered but Bastian Blank is willing to > > implement the patch for squeeze. Final decision on inclusion subje

Re: Debian Kernel Group Meeting / Xen Dom0 support

2009-10-21 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 01:00:21AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 23:19 +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 01:31:06PM +0100, Vincent Sanders wrote: > > > > > > xen dom 0 > > > + > > > > > >

Re: Debian Kernel Group Meeting / Xen Dom0 support

2009-10-20 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 01:31:06PM +0100, Vincent Sanders wrote: > > xen dom 0 > + > > Upstream development is splintered but Bastian Blank is willing to > implement the patch for squeeze. Final decision on inclusion subject > to building. > Novell/OpenSUSE has forward-ported Xen (dom0)

Re: Xen dom0 kernels/patches and Debian 6.0 Squeeze / 2.6.31 patches

2009-08-28 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 09:50:28PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > Hello, > > I was reading the earlier discussion from here: > http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.kernel/browse_thread/thread/e2338dd1590b3375/686d088bb32341c6?lnk=raot&pli=1 > > .. and want

Xen dom0 kernels/patches and Debian 6.0 Squeeze

2009-08-27 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
Hello, I was reading the earlier discussion from here: http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.kernel/browse_thread/thread/e2338dd1590b3375/686d088bb32341c6?lnk=raot&pli=1 .. and wanted to contribute a bit. This wiki page lists the available Xen dom0 kernels/patches: http://wiki.xensource.co

[Xen-devel] State of Xen in upstream Linux

2008-07-31 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
- Forwarded message from Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Xen-devel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Virtualization Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:51:37 -0700 Subject: [Xen-de

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Xen status in lenny?

2008-07-16 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 08:56:24PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 09:44:00PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 07:26:48PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 07:53:52PM +0300, Teodor wrote: > > >

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Xen status in lenny?

2008-07-16 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 07:26:48PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 07:53:52PM +0300, Teodor wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 2:49 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> > > See: http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenPara

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Xen status in lenny?

2008-07-16 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 02:11:48PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 07:11:06AM -0500, William Pitcock wrote: > > > > Without dom0, lenny will be unusable for several installations of mine > > which presently run an ugly combination of etch's dom0 and lenny's > > kernel. I

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Xen status in lenny?

2008-07-16 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 07:11:06AM -0500, William Pitcock wrote: > On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 12:35 +0200, maximilian attems wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:51:21PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 10:50:22AM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: > >

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Xen status in lenny?

2008-07-16 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 02:23:26PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 11:57:26AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 12:51 +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 10:50:22AM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: > > >

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Xen status in lenny?

2008-07-16 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 11:57:26AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 12:51 +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 10:50:22AM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: > > > see relevant posts of Ian Campbell on d-kernel > > > &g

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Xen status in lenny?

2008-07-16 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:35:09PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:51:21PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 10:50:22AM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: > > > On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > >

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Xen status in lenny?

2008-07-16 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 10:50:22AM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 05:22:55PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > > > > Hopefully Jeremy Fitzhardinge (from Xensource) and others can get the

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Xen status in lenny?

2008-07-16 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 03:51:12AM -0500, William Pitcock wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 11:42 +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > > > I guess it was faster _now_, but they'll have to live with the forward > > porting pain for years more now.. > >

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Xen status in lenny?

2008-07-16 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 03:40:38AM -0500, William Pitcock wrote: > On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 11:12 +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 01:54:50AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 05:22:55PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > >

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Xen status in lenny?

2008-07-16 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 01:54:50AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 05:22:55PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > > Hopefully Jeremy Fitzhardinge (from Xensource) and others can get the > > important Xen kernel features ported to pv_ops framework and in

Re: Etch/testing missing PAE kernel for xen; important for compatibility

2006-12-15 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 12:22:04AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 03:46:37PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=390862 > > > Is there anything that could be done with this, at this (late) point?

Bug#390862: -bigmem version of xen kernels is really needed

2006-12-14 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
So.. is there anything to do about this? -- Pasi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#390862: [Pkg-xen-devel] Re: Bug#390862: -bigmem version of xen kernels is really needed

2006-12-13 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 02:18:01PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 12:54:31PM +0300, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > > > > What about idea not to *add* pae versions of xen kernels, but to *replace* > > non-pae versions with pae versions? > > &g

Bug#390862: [Pkg-xen-devel] Re: Bug#390862: -bigmem version of xen kernels is really needed

2006-12-12 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 12:54:31PM +0300, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > > What about idea not to *add* pae versions of xen kernels, but to *replace* > non-pae versions with pae versions? > > Rationale: > > - not increase in archive size or linux-2.6 package build time, > > - this will improve