From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754049AbYKXTh0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:37:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752547AbYKXThQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:37:16 -0500 Received: from edu.joroinen.fi ([194.89.68.130]:55034 "EHLO edu.joroinen.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752314AbYKXThO (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:37:14 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 1412 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:37:14 EST Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:13:40 +0200 From: Pasi =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=E4rkk=E4inen?= To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: LKML , Xen-devel Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Status of Xen in vanilla? Message-ID: <20081124191340.GC15052@edu.joroinen.fi> References: <20081111113838.GA3474@outback.rfc2324.org> <4919D4B1.7080703@goop.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4919D4B1.7080703@goop.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:53:37AM -0800, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > Maximilian Wilhelm wrote: > >Hi! > > > >I'm wondering about the status of Xen support in the vanilla kernel. > >I know that DomU support is inside the kernel an evolving, but I did > >not find an up-to-date hint about the status of Dom0 support. > > > >A while ago I read that it should be included in 2.6.28, but I do not > >find any current pointer about the status of this. > > > > .28 was a bit optimistic; .29 seems reasonable. The current dom0 kernel > patches can boot up to a fully functional dom0 usersmode, and you can > start xend to see that domain 0 is running. I *think* in theory you can > create a deviceless domain, but I haven't tried it. I'm currently > working on blktap support. > > I really need to put together a proper status update. Now that dom0 > usermode is working, its a much better base for other people start > contributing. > This reminded me of updating http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenParavirtOps Now it says "Features added in 2.6.27". Maybe you can go through the page, and update/add missing stuff.. -- Pasi