Re: [Fedora-xen] F10 crystal ball gazing

["Andy Burns" <fedora lists burns me uk>]

2008/7/5 Mark McLoughlin <markmc redhat com>:

> There has been very little progress on the Dom0 pv_ops work of late

Oh, I thought from reading some of the Xen Summit slides that xen3.3
would mean pv_ops becoming the default for dom0 as well as domU.

> it's getting harder to imagine it being in shape for Fedora 10

Gulp, that tightens the noose on those of us with fedora 8 dom0 machines.

> I would expect our DomU kernel to continue tracking the bare-metal
> kernel versions - so, yeah, 2.6.27 probably.
>
> Jeremy Fitzhardinge sounds fairly confident of having much of x86_64
> DomU ready for the 2.6.27 merge window. If that happens, our patch set
> would be quite small and I'd imagine we'd enable CONFIG_XEN in the
> bare-metal kernel and drop the kernel-xen package.

Some potential good news then, thanks for the info.