Re: Several questions from a freshman to Xen

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 11:51:01PM +0800, Zhengwang Ruan (Royo) wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> 
> I am new man with some confusions to this amazing technology, hope
> you guys give answers to help me better understand Xen. :)
> 
> 1, You guys have been working on developing many releases, do you
> guys have agreements on developing every source code based on a
> fixed linux kernel version before starting a new release? If so, how

No.
> could I know the corresponding kernel version to a given xen
> release? I tried to find answer for myself on the following wiki
> page, but it is not latest enough.

Anything past 3.0 kernel should work. Every Linux kernel release
we fix bugs and add new features.

Look in Paravirt Wiki for the roadmap of what we want to
have in 3.2 and 3.3 Linux kernel.
> 
> http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/DistributionSupport
> 
> 2, I found some interesting source files in xen-4.1.1 release, I
> listed them below:
> 
> $ ll
> drwx------ 4 royo royo 16384 2011-10-12 00:20 arch/
> drwx------ 5 royo royo 16384 2011-06-15 00:03 common/
> -rw-r--r-- 1 royo royo 19185 2011-06-15 00:03 COPYING
> drwx------ 2 royo royo 16384 2011-06-15 00:03 crypto/
> drwx------ 8 royo royo 16384 2011-06-15 00:03 drivers/
> drwx------ 9 royo royo 16384 2011-06-15 00:03 include/
> -rw-r--r-- 1 royo royo  5529 2011-06-15 00:03 Makefile
> -rw-r--r-- 1 royo royo  3498 2011-06-15 00:03 Rules.mk
> drwx------ 3 royo royo 16384 2011-06-15 00:03 tools/
> drwx------ 4 royo royo 16384 2011-06-15 00:03 xsm/
> 
> Are these files going to replace or be added to linux kernel source
> while making dm0? I am amazed that this release can be installed to

Why would they?