[Fedora-xen] Status of Xen on FC6 2.6.20.x - feedback

[John Casey]

I've been using Kernel-xen-2.6.20.2925 now since its release on the 21st on
an FC6 Intel Core2 machine, 4GB Ram, Sata Disks, tv card.  So far it seems
that all of the previous instability issues have been addressed.   I am also
running a WinXp pro guest, running since the 21st, and have had no
instability issues.

Thanks guys. 

John Casey
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel P. Berrange [mailto:berrange at redhat.com] 
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 10:02 AM
To: John Casey
Cc: fedora-xen at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Fedora-xen] Status of Xen on FC6 2.6.20.x

On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 05:55:47PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 09:41:26AM -0700, John Casey wrote:
> > Can someone tell me or give me a pointer to the status of Xen on FC6
kernel
> > 2.6.20.x?    I've read about and experienced some serious instability on
> > 2.6.20.x and was wondering when a stable release was expected.    All of
the
> > threads I've read say to use Xen on 2.6.18, but since Xen is not a
critical
> > requirement for me, I'd like to wait until it comes out on 2.6.20 (or
FC7)
> > which ever comes first.  
> 
> F7 is arriving real soon now and will be  Xen 3.1.0 + 2.6.20 kernel. This
> kernel will fix the 3 core kernel-xen bugs that are being experianced by
> most people (one 32-bit data corruption issue, 2 SMP bugs).

I should point out, this is all actually in rawhide right now....

kernel-xen-2.6.20-2925.8.fc7  + xen-3.1.0-0.rc7.2.fc7

And since rawhide is in deep freeze now it is in pretty good shape. This
is the rc7 pre-release, and we'll update to the GA xen release very shortly
after Fedora 7 is released. There's no major changes missing there really.

> We're going to apply these same patches to the FC6 kernel-xen which should
> also resolve the stability issues seen on the FC6 2.6.20 builds. I don't
> have an exact timeframe for this, but it should be in updates-testing at
> least fairly soon.


Dan.
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