From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Subject: Re: Vanilla Linux 64-bit paravirt guest support Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:29:51 -0500 Message-ID: <47FBE3CF.4000107@goop.org> References: <47FAF285.10103@cmu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <47FAF285.10103@cmu.edu> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Michael Abd-El-Malek Cc: xen-devel , Eduardo Habkost List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org 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