Re: [Xen-users] Recent Dom0 kernel

[Bastian Blank <bastian@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 04:54:42PM +0100, Paul Schulze wrote:
> There are many reasons, hardware support and security mostly.

No. RHEL is both security supported and they add new (server) hardware
support.

>                                                               The  
> system my Xen server is supposed to run on, is about 6 months old  
> (the hardware itself was released spring 2008) and contains it  
> components that simply aren't supported in a kernel that is more than  
> two years old.

Server hardware is rather unproblematic from my view.

A quick view in the changelog of the Debian Etch package shows 3 updates
which includes such hardware:
- 3ware 9650/9690
- New intel network chips
- Compaq smart array

If you want to do anything yourself, your are rather lost, yes.

>              So if you, or anyone else has some hints for me, that  
> would be really great.

apt-get install linux-image-2.6.26-1-xen-amd64

Ah, and stop top-posting.

Bastian

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