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Re: [Xen-devel] Kernel 2.4?

To: Yuzhong Sun <yuzhongsun@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Kernel 2.4?
From: tab@xxxxxxxxx (Vincent Hanquez)
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 15:58:53 +0200
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On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 09:46:19PM +0800, Yuzhong Sun wrote:
> I am porting OpenMosix on top of Xen. However, the stable release of
> openMosix is based on Linux Kernel 2.4(They are trying to port it to kernel
> 2.6).

There's lots more work to port 2.4 kernels to Xen-3, than to finish 2.6
openmosix. Now you could just use Xen-2, which support 2.4 kernels.
Patching 2.4 kernel on Xen2 with openmosix should be trivial.

> I wonder why Xen didn't support the lower kernel version such as 2.4 kernel.
> There is some open sources based on kernel 2.4.

I wouldn't count openmosix-2.4 as a good source here ...

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Vincent Hanquez

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