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

[Mats Petersson <mats@planetcatfish.com>]

At 19:24 21/07/2007, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 01:42:06PM +0100, Keir Fraser wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On 21/7/07 12:21, "pradeep singh rautela" <rautelap@gmail.com> 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 ...).
>
>I thought that with this initial merge, we stll had to build separate
>images for bare metal vs Xen paravirt because of the way Linux uses
>the bzImage, while Xen is in ELF format ? Or has this bootup difference
>already been resolved ?


I think that is correct. Work is (from what Jeremy said) in progress 
to make a "compatible format" for both uses.

--
Mats



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