From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Zhengwang Ruan (Royo)" Subject: Re: Several questions from a freshman to Xen Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 21:04:04 +0800 Message-ID: <4E983344.8060907@gmail.com> References: <4E9708E5.9060104@gmail.com> <20111013184228.GK15499@phenom.oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20111013184228.GK15499@phenom.oracle.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: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 2011年10月14日 02:42, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 11:51:01PM +0800, Zhengwang Ruan (Royo) wrote: >> 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 > No. >> 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. > Anything past 3.0 kernel should work. Every Linux kernel release > we fix bugs and add new features. They are the kernel releases in the git repository http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen.git ? > Look in Paravirt Wiki for the roadmap of what we want to > have in 3.2 and 3.3 Linux kernel. See, really good roadmap! >> 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 > Why would they? Sorry, I misunderstood xen-4.1.1 as part of dom0, and would be merged into kernel to produce a dom0, but I know I was wrong. :) Thanks, Royo