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Re: [Xen-users] Xen and it's future with linux?

To: Boris Derzhavets <bderzhavets@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Xen and it's future with linux?
From: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:03:26 +0200
Cc: christopher andrews <khriz9@xxxxxxx>, xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 05:37:47AM -0800, Boris Derzhavets wrote:
>    > Xen pv_ops dom0 support is being developed and finalized atm, and it'll
>    be
>    > upstreamed soon.
> 
>    ?
> 

Well upstreaming has been the whole point of the Xen Linux support rewrite 
(pvops). 
Jeremy is working hard on it, and the stuff will be upstreamed when it's ready.

I think currently there's still some ACPI related stuff to sort out.

-- Pasi

>    Boris.
> 
>    --- On Sat, 3/13/10, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>      From: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
>      Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Xen and it's future with linux?
>      To: "christopher andrews" <khriz9@xxxxxxx>
>      Cc: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>      Date: Saturday, March 13, 2010, 6:34 AM
> 
>      On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 07:53:35PM -0800, christopher andrews wrote:
>      >    Hello Everyone
>      >    I was wondering if any has any information on what going with xen.
>      I have
>      >    notice that many linux distro have start removing linux dom0 and
>      domU's
>      >    support like ubunutu. I'm kinda worried on what the future is going
>      to
>      >    hold for xen. Also is there any way to get ubuntu 9.10 supported
>      has a
>      >    domU without using HVM because performance reasons?
> 
>      Xen pv_ops domU support has been in mainline (kernel.org) Linux kernel
>      since 2.6.24,
>      so Xen PV domU support is automatically in every new kernel release.
> 
>      Afaik Ubuntu does support running as Xen PV domU (they enable Xen pvops
>      domU support)
>      in their normal kernels nowadays, just like Fedora does.
> 
>      Xen pv_ops dom0 support is being developed and finalized atm, and it'll
>      be upstreamed soon.
> 
>      More information about various Xen Dom0 capable kernels:
>      [1]http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenDom0Kernels
> 
>      And information about Xen pvops dom0 development:
>      [2]http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenParavirtOps
> 
>      pv_ops dom0 is available today, and it'll be the standard/default dom0
>      kernel
>      in the upcoming Xen 4.0.0 release (4.0.0-rc6 is the latest release
>      candidate).
> 
>      Hopefully that helps.
> 
>      -- Pasi
> 
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