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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Michael Abd-El-Malek <mabdelmalek@cmu.edu>
Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
	Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Vanilla Linux 64-bit paravirt guest support
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:29:51 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47FBE3CF.4000107@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47FAF285.10103@cmu.edu>

Michael Abd-El-Malek wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Can someone tell me what the status of 64-bit paravirtualization 
> support is in the vanilla Linux tree?  It seems that 2.6.24 only has 
> 32-bit PV support.  And it seems that 2.6.25 will be getting 64-bit PV 
> support.  Will it be complete?

No, 2.6.25 will not have 64-bit Xen support.  I'm hoping it will be 
ready for .26.

> On a related note: is it possible to compile the PV network/block 
> drivers for a HVM Linux guest with the newest kernels?  Compilation 
> failed and a previous message on the list says that you can't do 
> that.  The reason I'd want to do this is to let me run a 64-bit recent 
> Linux kernel with PV drivers. 

No, we don't support that for the moment, though it would be a useful 
thing to have.

    J

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-08 21:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-08  4:20 Vanilla Linux 64-bit paravirt guest support Michael Abd-El-Malek
2008-04-08 21:29 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2008-04-10  4:14   ` Michael Abd-El-Malek
2008-04-10 14:01     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-04-10 14:11       ` Mark McLoughlin
2008-04-10 14:25         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-04-10 14:40           ` Mark McLoughlin
2008-04-10 15:04             ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-04-19 15:11               ` Bastian Blank
2008-04-10 14:32         ` Michael Abd-El-Malek
2008-04-10 14:49           ` Mark McLoughlin
2008-04-10 14:57           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-04-10 15:06             ` Fix a typo in p2m.c Huang2, Wei
2008-04-10 15:14             ` Vanilla Linux 64-bit paravirt guest support Michael Abd-El-Malek
2008-04-10 15:40               ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-06 16:22         ` Mark McLoughlin

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