From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753547AbZEaVME (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 May 2009 17:12:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752217AbZEaVLy (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 May 2009 17:11:54 -0400 Received: from fmmailgate05.web.de ([217.72.192.243]:52724 "EHLO fmmailgate05.web.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752057AbZEaVLy convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 May 2009 17:11:54 -0400 Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 23:11:54 +0200 Message-Id: <744614391@web.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 From: devzero@web.de To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Xen is a feature Organization: http://freemail.web.de/ X-Provags-Id: V01U2FsdGVkX1/23DRUwwPQmIii/aTyaD5BBTYo92YrKiZSrqE329EsP43j5 d6rtpP1UtgIeInNSElfo61/ch5AMvuPQZA2fV66lml2vAF1gyY= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org can we have dom0 support in mainline please? NOW! i`m really curious that companies spending millions on xen and even so mainline merge still remains such a neverending story. List: linux-kernel Subject: Re: Xen is a feature From: Tomasz Chmielewski Date: 2009-05-29 11:48:59 Message-ID: 4A1FCBAB.2030100 () wpkg ! org [Download message RAW] Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 05:45:34PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: >> Mozilla and Debian are hosted on Xen systems. > > A tiny data point about these domains. They are hosted by osuosl.org, > which uses xen systems running with the current dom0 patch set. Because > those patches are out-of-tree, they have a hard time updating kernel > versions, and generally lag kernel.org releases by a lot, which is not > always a good thing. > > So getting the dom0 patches into mainline will make their lives much > easier, and more secure. I know at least a couple of mid-sized hosting companies migrating all or part of their infrastructure off Linux/Xen to a proprietary solution, because of this very reason (problems with keeping dom0 kernel up to date, problems with deploying it on new machines etc.). -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org _______________________________________________________________________ Nur bis 31.05.: WEB.DE FreeDSL Komplettanschluss mit DSL 6.000 Flatrate und Telefonanschluss für 17,95 Euro/mtl.! http://produkte.web.de/go/02/