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Re: [Xen-users] Latest working -xen kernel?

To: "Fajar A. Nugraha" <fajar@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Latest working -xen kernel?
From: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:20:33 +0300
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On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 05:01:52PM +0700, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> What is currently the latest, working, old-style xen kernel available?
> I'm using custom-compiled, minimal, vanilla 2.6.30.5 kernel on one of
> my domUs, which works great, but I kinda miss memory and cpu hotplug
> feature. So I was hoping to get a working -xen kernel. The problem is:
> 

You could always use linux-2.6.18-xen, that's still the official
tested/supported kernel for Xen 3.4.x. This will be the best working kernel.

http://xenbits.xen.org/linux-2.6.18-xen.hg

Or then some of the 'xenified' forward-ports you just listed..

-- Pasi

> - http://code.google.com/p/gentoo-xen-kernel/downloads/list says
> 2.6.30 patches are buggy
> - 
> http://x17.eu/xen/linux-2.6.29.6-xen.aka.suse-xenified-2.6.29-62.1-rebased.patches.by.andrew.lyon.tar.gz
> with similar config as the 2.6.30 refused to boot on my AMD box
> - Debian's 2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 would complain "BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0
> stuck for 61s! [swapper:0]" every now and then
> 
> What are you guys using? Is
> http://x17.eu/xen/linux-2.6.31_pvops-xen-rebase.master.tree-2009-08-20.tar.bz2
> good enough?
> 
> -- 
> Fajar
> 
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