Disappointed with the Upcoming Fedora 12 Release

Bill Davidsen davidsen at tmr.com
Tue Nov 10 20:24:07 UTC 2009


Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Fedora is my favorite Linux distribution. I have been eagerly 
> anticipating the upcoming release of Fedora 12 but am disappointed to 
> discover that it will not support Xen pv-ops dom0 kernel.
> 
 >
> <QUOTE>
> 
> 
>       Xen Kernel Support
> 
> The |kernel| package in Fedora 12 supports booting as a guest domU, but 
> will not function as a dom0 until such support is provided upstream. 
> Work is ongoing and hopes are high that support will be included in 
> |kernel| 2.6.33 and Fedora 13.
> 
> The most recent Fedora release with dom0 support is Fedora 8.
> 
> </QUOTE>
> 
I have to ask, why Fedora instead of CentOS as the host for these multiple 
machines? Do you really run all those guests and use the dom0 for anything but 
administration?

-- 
Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
   "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
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