From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755028AbXDZUXX (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:23:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755022AbXDZUXX (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:23:23 -0400 Received: from gw.goop.org ([64.81.55.164]:55416 "EHLO mail.goop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1031495AbXDZUXT (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:23:19 -0400 Message-ID: <46310A58.4090207@goop.org> Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:23:52 -0700 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Xen-devel , Virtualization Mailing List , Linux Kernel Mailing List CC: Andi Kleen , Zachary Amsden Subject: Xen/paravirt_ops kernel available for testing Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi all, I'm pleased to announce a Xen paravirt_ops kernel available for testing at http://xenbits.xensource.com/ext/paravirt_ops/. These kernels are based on this morning's 2.6.21, along with all the paravirt_ops + Xen patches. The pre-built i386 kernel RPM is based on the FC6 configuration, and it has both Xen and VMI paravirt_ops support enabled. Unfortunately the RPM is a bit rough, and you'll need to generate an initrd and update your boot-loader to make it bootable. To boot under Xen, use /boot/vmlinux-.gz as the kernel image. This is definitely a testing snapshot release, but it has had a bit of testing. I've been using it running native on my main work machine, and it behaves exactly like a non-paravirt kernel. It has also been tested under Xen on XenRT, XenSource's automated testing infrastructure, where it passes almost everything. There are a couple of expected BUG messages which appear on boot: one in init_sched_clock, and one in xen_apic_read. Both are harmless warning messages, and will be removed shortly. (However, if you see more than one xen_apic_read warning, please send me the details along with your kernel config.) Please see the RELEASE*.txt for release notes. J