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Re: [Xen-users] Xen and it's future with linux?

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Xen and it's future with linux?
From: Markus Schönhaber <xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:27:22 +0100
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13.03.2010 15:51, Pasi Kärkkäinen:
> On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 02:23:14PM +0100, Markus Schönhaber wrote:
>> 13.03.2010 12:34, Pasi Kärkkäinen:
>>
>>> Afaik Ubuntu does support running as Xen PV domU (they enable Xen pvops 
>>> domU support)
>>> in their normal kernels nowadays, just like Fedora does.
>>
>> Just a heads up: on 32-bit Ubuntu Karmic, the linux-image-virtual
>> package pulls in a kernel which isn't usable as Xen DomU kernel. A very
>> unpleasant surprise awaits someone who is using this package and
>> upgrades a DomU from Jaunty to Karmic.
> 
> iirc the kernel-package containing xen domU support was called something 
> else.. 
> does someone remember what that was? -generic? -server? -ec2? 

The actual kernel binary that gets installed when using
linux-image-virtual on 32-bit Karmic is -generic-pae.
Up to Jaunty it was -server.
AFAICT the 32-bit -generic kernels never had DomU support compiled in,
while the -server kernels did.
OTOH, the 64-bit Karmic -generic kernel comes with DomU support enabled.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/437331
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/461127

To me, it seems that Ubuntu doesn't really care about Xen.

-- 
Regards
  mks

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