Re: Xen is a feature

devzero
2009-05-31T21:12:04Z

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 <mangoo () wpkg ! org>
Date: 2009-05-29 11:48:59
Message-ID: 4A1FCBAB.2030100 () wpkg ! org
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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.).

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Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org

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