[Mageia-dev] RFT: xen support

Mon Jan 9 11:06:02 CET 2012

On 9 January 2012 10:49, Guillaume Rousse <guillomovitch at gmail.com> wrote:
+>>> And as of kernel-2.6.38.2-4.mga1 there has been some cleanups and addons
+>>> for
+>>> xen:
+>>>
+>>> There is now a kernel-xen-pvops that also should work as dom0.
+>>>
+>>> Now this is mostly upstream kenel.org code so its not as fully
+>>> featured as the old kernel-xen. You can see the features listed here:
+>>> http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenParavirtOps.
+>>>
+>>> There is one exception: our 2.6.38 kernel has xen-netback backend driver
+>>> added.
+>>>
+>>> So those of you that have been using xen, please test atleast the
+>>> following:
+>>>
+>>> - check that kernel-server still works as a xen guest
+>>> - try to use kernel-xen-pvops as dom0 and see how it works
+>>> (you can also try to use kernel-xen-pvops as a normal xen guest)
+>>
+>>
+>> Doesn't that mean that when running in XEN, the installer shouldn't
+>> pick kernel-server
+>> instead of kernel-desktop? (since we've no dom0 support in the later)
+>> Or even kernel-xen-pvps if there's no HW support for virtualisation?
+>
+> If 'running in Xen' means 'running as guest', you don't need any special
+> kernel for hardware virtualisation, and just a kernel with Xen support for
+> paravirtualisation. The dom0 support is only needed for the xen host. Which
+> means the installer kernel itself should have xen support to be runnable in
+> any context.
+
+Either we should restore alt1 in installer or we should enable DOM0 support
+in desktop kernel
+Then we sh
+