mardel
04.03.08, 23:23
Sorry for the strange title, didn't find a better one. The questions are:confused: at the end ;-)
I want to start with some general understanding about xen, because I fear that the whole thing is a bit tricky and I might be wrong at some point.
I heard that for xen you need dom0 and domU kernel. The domU kernels are the operating systems which are being virtualized in addition to the dom0 one who also manages these systems. For example if I run linux on dom0 regularly and windows on domU (this is what I want to do) then linux manages the domU system and can be used on its own aswell. There would be no real need to setup a domU linux aswell.
Www.kernel.org supports domU kernels but no dom0 kernels. So with the right compiling options set I can produce domU kernels but there is no way to get a dom0 kernel that way. These dom0 kernels have to be build from xen-linux repositories or the sources. Here comes the problem: They lag behind the kernel.org kernel. The current dom0 kernel is 2.6.18.
Since this is so much lag the xen developers said that they want to improve pv_ops. They plan do put that into the kernel.org kernel at some time. However in the near future this means that 2.6.18 stays the current xen dom0 kernel for a while. (I heard rumors that there are some patches around. But it is not possible to get to 2.6.24 with patches, don't know how far you can get)
In the Fedora project they said that Fedora 9 comes with pv_ops which kills all these dom0 problems and then there will be only one sort of kernel serving both dom0 and domU.
In how far is this related to the Fedora Project? Is it not more connected to a new xen release? Will I be able to use this new stuff with Debain then aswell? What will I have to do then?
Will the 2.6.25 kernel be with dom0 and domU support already?
I want to start with some general understanding about xen, because I fear that the whole thing is a bit tricky and I might be wrong at some point.
I heard that for xen you need dom0 and domU kernel. The domU kernels are the operating systems which are being virtualized in addition to the dom0 one who also manages these systems. For example if I run linux on dom0 regularly and windows on domU (this is what I want to do) then linux manages the domU system and can be used on its own aswell. There would be no real need to setup a domU linux aswell.
Www.kernel.org supports domU kernels but no dom0 kernels. So with the right compiling options set I can produce domU kernels but there is no way to get a dom0 kernel that way. These dom0 kernels have to be build from xen-linux repositories or the sources. Here comes the problem: They lag behind the kernel.org kernel. The current dom0 kernel is 2.6.18.
Since this is so much lag the xen developers said that they want to improve pv_ops. They plan do put that into the kernel.org kernel at some time. However in the near future this means that 2.6.18 stays the current xen dom0 kernel for a while. (I heard rumors that there are some patches around. But it is not possible to get to 2.6.24 with patches, don't know how far you can get)
In the Fedora project they said that Fedora 9 comes with pv_ops which kills all these dom0 problems and then there will be only one sort of kernel serving both dom0 and domU.
In how far is this related to the Fedora Project? Is it not more connected to a new xen release? Will I be able to use this new stuff with Debain then aswell? What will I have to do then?
Will the 2.6.25 kernel be with dom0 and domU support already?