From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mats Petersson Subject: Re: [Q]Which part of Xen is in slated for 2.6.23 kernel release? Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 19:27:30 +0100 Message-ID: <46a25039.19e7300a.7c63.ffff8892@mx.google.com> References: <6bc632150707210421q1397d529n5945ed943304b815@mail.gmail.com> <20070721182440.GA27107@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20070721182440.GA27107@redhat.com> References: <6bc632150707210421q1397d529n5945ed943304b815@mail.gmail.com> <20070721182440.GA27107@redhat.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: "Daniel P. Berrange" , Keir Fraser Cc: xen-devel List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org 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" 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 >Dan. >-- >|=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| >|=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| >|=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| >|=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=| > >_______________________________________________ >Xen-devel mailing list >Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com >http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel