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RE: [Xen-devel] determining dom0 version and bit size from domU

To: "Keir Fraser" <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, "xen-devel" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] determining dom0 version and bit size from domU
From: "James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 21:29:18 +1100
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> On 2/2/08 02:40, "James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Am I out of luck here? If I need to implement anything in Dom0 to do
it
> > then I'll just document the Windows Xen PV drivers as being
compatible
> > only with 3.1.1 and above if you want to mix and match bit widths...
but
> > it would be nice to support older code.
> 
> Requiring 3.1.1+ is probably not unreasonable.
> 

Maybe unless you are running Debian... Debian 'testing' has 3.1.1
hypervisor and tools, but the kernels are built against something a bit
older, as they have no protocol detection capability.

James

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