From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Zhengwang Ruan (Royo)" Subject: Several questions from a freshman to Xen Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 23:51:01 +0800 Message-ID: <4E9708E5.9060104@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org 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 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. 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 many linux distributions with different kernel, how could you guys achieve this? Thanks, Royo