Re: Status of Xen in vanilla?

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>]

Maximilian Wilhelm wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm wondering about the status of Xen support in the vanilla kernel.
> I know that DomU support is inside the kernel an evolving, but I did
> not find an up-to-date hint about the status of Dom0 support.
>
> A while ago I read that it should be included in 2.6.28, but I do not
> find any current pointer about the status of this.
>   

.28 was a bit optimistic; .29 seems reasonable.  The current dom0 kernel 
patches can boot up to a fully functional dom0 usersmode, and you can 
start xend to see that domain 0 is running.  I *think* in theory you can 
create a deviceless domain, but I haven't tried it.  I'm currently 
working on blktap support.

I really need to put together a proper status update.  Now that dom0 
usermode is working, its a much better base for other people start 
contributing.

    J