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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Status of Xen in vanilla?

To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Status of Xen in vanilla?
From: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:13:40 +0200
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On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:53:37AM -0800, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Maximilian Wilhelm wrote:
> >Hi!
> >
> >I'm wondering about the status of Xen support in the vanilla kernel.
> >I know that DomU support is inside the kernel an evolving, but I did
> >not find an up-to-date hint about the status of Dom0 support.
> >
> >A while ago I read that it should be included in 2.6.28, but I do not
> >find any current pointer about the status of this.
> >  
> 
> .28 was a bit optimistic; .29 seems reasonable.  The current dom0 kernel 
> patches can boot up to a fully functional dom0 usersmode, and you can 
> start xend to see that domain 0 is running.  I *think* in theory you can 
> create a deviceless domain, but I haven't tried it.  I'm currently 
> working on blktap support.
> 
> I really need to put together a proper status update.  Now that dom0 
> usermode is working, its a much better base for other people start 
> contributing.
> 

This reminded me of updating http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenParavirtOps

Now it says "Features added in 2.6.27".

Maybe you can go through the page, and update/add missing stuff.. 

-- Pasi

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