Status of Xen in vanilla?

Status of Xen in vanilla?

[Maximilian Wilhelm]

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.

Thanks for hacking on it!

(No need for CC'ing me, I'm subscribed.)

Ciao
Max
-- 
	Follow the white penguin.

Re: Status of Xen in vanilla?

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

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

Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Status of Xen in vanilla?

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:53:37AM -0800, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> 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.
> 

This reminded me of updating http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenParavirtOps

Now it says "Features added in 2.6.27".

Maybe you can go through the page, and update/add missing stuff.. 

-- Pasi