Re: [Xen-users] When will xen-compatibilty be standard in Linux kernels?

["Greg Freemyer" <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx>]

> > I had heard back in the spring that a politacal bruhaha had erurpted
> > as to whether to accept pure Xen patches vs. generic Hypervisor
> > patches.
> >
> > IIRC, the generic set of patches were coming from VMware or maybe MS.
> >
> > Was it ever settled?
>
> VMware produced the generic patches for their VMI interface.  The
> disagreements were at least partly technical regarding the approaches of the
> VMI and Xen patches - both had merits and problems.  Getting competing
> companies to co-operate is always interesting proposition, though, I think!
>
> The dispute has seemingly been settled by a resolution to implement an
> interface called "paravirt_ops" which can either talk to VMI (VMware) or the
> Xen hypercall API.  paravirt_ops should eventually allow a single kernel
> build to run on one or more hypervisors in paravirtualised mode, and natively
> on hardware - with decent performance.
>
> The plan was to push ahead with getting basic infrastructure for paravirt_ops
> merged pretty quickly.
>
> The merge process for the Xen code has been pretty slow, but it is still
> planned to happen.
>
> Cheers,
> Mark
The merge window for 2.6.19 has been open for a week or so.  Anything
Xen related going in?

Greg
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Greg Freemyer
The Norcross Group
Forensics for the 21st Century

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