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Re: [Xen-devel] [Q]Which part of Xen is in slated for 2.6.23 kernel release?


  • To: pradeep singh rautela <rautelap@xxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 13:42:06 +0100
  • Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Delivery-date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 05:36:23 -0700
  • List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xensource.com>
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  • Thread-topic: [Xen-devel] [Q]Which part of Xen is in slated for 2.6.23 kernel release?



On 21/7/07 12:21, "pradeep singh rautela" <rautelap@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> The scope of the patches is domU guest support. Vanilla linux 2.6.23 will
>> not support running as dom0 (Jeremy is working on this for a future Linux
>> release). Nor does it contain the hypervisor code itself -- you have to
>> obtain the Xen hypervisor separately from the kernel sources.
> 
> Great!!!
> So this means 2.6.23 vanilla kernel can be compiled as a domU natively, right?

Yes. In fact the paravirt_ops framework means that you can build a single
kernel that will work natively or on Xen (or on VMware or lguest or ...).

 -- Keir


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