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<H1>[Mageia-dev] RFT: xen support</H1>
<B>Thierry Vignaud</B>
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<I>Mon Jan 9 11:06:02 CET 2012</I>
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<PRE>On 9 January 2012 10:49, Guillaume Rousse <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">guillomovitch at gmail.com</A>> wrote:
>>><i> And as of kernel-2.6.38.2-4.mga1 there has been some cleanups and addons
</I>>>><i> for
</I>>>><i> xen:
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> There is now a kernel-xen-pvops that also should work as dom0.
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> Now this is mostly upstream kenel.org code so its not as fully
</I>>>><i> featured as the old kernel-xen. You can see the features listed here:
</I>>>><i> <A HREF="http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenParavirtOps.">http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenParavirtOps.</A>
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> There is one exception: our 2.6.38 kernel has xen-netback backend driver
</I>>>><i> added.
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> So those of you that have been using xen, please test atleast the
</I>>>><i> following:
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> - check that kernel-server still works as a xen guest
</I>>>><i> - try to use kernel-xen-pvops as dom0 and see how it works
</I>>>><i> (you can also try to use kernel-xen-pvops as a normal xen guest)
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</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> Doesn't that mean that when running in XEN, the installer shouldn't
</I>>><i> pick kernel-server
</I>>><i> instead of kernel-desktop? (since we've no dom0 support in the later)
</I>>><i> Or even kernel-xen-pvps if there's no HW support for virtualisation?
</I>><i>
</I>><i> If 'running in Xen' means 'running as guest', you don't need any special
</I>><i> kernel for hardware virtualisation, and just a kernel with Xen support for
</I>><i> paravirtualisation. The dom0 support is only needed for the xen host. Which
</I>><i> means the installer kernel itself should have xen support to be runnable in
</I>><i> any context.
</I>
Either we should restore alt1 in installer or we should enable DOM0 support
in desktop kernel
Then we sh
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