[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-users] Update the kernel?
Hi Jon, On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 16:36 -0900, jonr@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Can someone point me to a doc that I can read that would explain why > we are not moving to a new kernel? I don't even see it on the Road Map. > > Thanks for any help, > > Jon At some point (hopefully in the relatively near future), dom-0 operations should make their way into mainline Linux, which means that any kernel.org kernel can then be configured to be used as a dom-0 host. Currently, any recent kernel.org kernel (2.6.23 or later) can be used as a guest kernel, see this wiki page for help on configuring one: http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Kernel.org_Linux_on_Xen Getting the dom-0 patches into a new kernel is no easy task. Since (eventually) these will appear in mainline, many distributions are electing to either not ship a dom-0 kernel, or ship the official XenLinux (2.6.18) kernel while waiting. This means, most are packaging Xen but leaving the dom-0 kernel up to you to build and install. Some are still trying to keep a fairly new kernel for dom-0 available, such as OpenSUSE and Debian unstable who are both at 2.6.26. I have no idea when the merge with mainline is going to happen, most of us are just keeping our fingers crossed for 'soon' :) Cheers, --Tim _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
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