Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.0.0 first release candidate

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 01:48:53PM +0200, Sassy Natan wrote:
>    OK,
>    Thanks for the quick answer.
> 
>    Can u please tell me which branch I should download from Jeremy git server
>    in order to test it?
>

See this wiki page for instructions:
http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenParavirtOps

Other Xen dom0 kernels:
http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenDom0Kernels

-- Pasi

>    10x again
>    Sassy
> 
>    On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Keir Fraser
>    <[1]keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>      You can use any kernel as dom0 for Xen 4.0, so long as that kernel
>      includes
>      dom0 support. So that could be 2.6.18, or 2.6.27 from XCI project, or
>      Jeremy's pv_ops git tree, or some distro kernel. The kernel built by
>      default
>      by the Xen 4.0 build system will be Jeremy's pv_ops tree, but that
>      doesn't
>      mean you *have* to use it.
>       -- Keir
>      On 12/01/2010 11:31, "Sassy Natan" <[2]sassyn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>      > Hi Keir, Xen Group ...
>      >
>      > Just to make things more clear, I wanted to know which kernel version
>      this
>      > version support?
>      > Is it still work with the old stable kernel 2.6.18 or should I grub
>      the new
>      > version from Jeremy branches?
>      >
>      > To my understating version 4.0 of xen is plan to work by default with
>      the
>      > pv_ops mechanism on the dom0.
>      > But at the moment the latest stable kernel 2.6.32.3 does not include a
>      dom0
>      > support but only domU support (both oldstyle and pv_ops).
>      >
>      > So, Does the release of Xen 4.0 is plan to include Dom0 support in the
>      kernel
>      > mainline?
>      >
>      > According to Jeremy there is quite more work to do in-order to have
>      Xen Dom0
>      > support in the kernel mainline. see more here:
>      > [3]http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.xen.devel/75992
>      >
>      > Can you please provide more feedback on this issue?
>      >
>      >
>      > Thanks for the support, and thanks for publishing to the open source
>      this
>      > amazing virtualization system.
>      > Sassy
>      > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Keir Fraser
>      <[4]keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>      > wrote:
>      >> Folks,
>      >>
>      >> The first release candidate for Xen 4.0.0 has been tagged and
>      published.
>      >>
>      >> You can grab it from here:
>      >> [5]http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-unstable.hg (tagged '4.0.0-rc1')
>      >>
>      >> Please test it!
>      >>
>      >>  -- Keir
>      >>
>      >>
>      >>
>      >> _______________________________________________
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>      >> [7]http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
>      >
>      >
> 
> References
> 
>    Visible links
>    1. mailto:keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>    2. mailto:sassyn@xxxxxxxxx
>    3. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.xen.devel/75992
>    4. mailto:keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>    5. http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-unstable.hg
>    6. mailto:Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>    7. http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel

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