[CentOS] Does anyone try Xen in Kernel 3.0?

[Ross Walker]

On Aug 8, 2011, at 2:37 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik at iki.fi> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 07:07:57AM +0700, "LHT. Qu???c" wrote:
>> On 08/08/2011 12:01 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
>>> On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 03:05:42PM +0700, LHT. Qu???c wrote:
>>>> Does anyone try Xen in Kernel 3.0? I use "$ git clone
>>>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen.git
>>>> linux-3.0.0-xen" command and it works.
>>>> 
>>> Btw you don't need to get jeremy's tree anymore for Xen dom0 support,
>>> you can just get the upstream Linus tree, most of the dom0 bits are already upstream.
>> How I can boot to Xen Kernel?
>> 
> 
> You don't need "Xen Kernel" anymore..
> 
> The normal upstream kernel.org Linux kernel now runs as:
> 
>    - Baremetal / native hardware
>    - Xen dom0 (virtualization host)
>    - Xen PV domU
>    - Xen HVM guest
>    - Xen PVHVM guest (HVM with PV drivers)
> 
> .. when using Linux kernel 3.0 or later.
> 
> Obviously you still need to install the actual Xen hypervisor (xen.gz) and tools,
> and then modify grub.conf to add Xen+dom0 entry there.

Let me add, I don't know how stable user land will be with a Linux 3.0 kernel on C6, better then C5, but not as good as an enterprise 3.0 edition.

Is there a definitive reason to run 3.0 kernel? C5 has dom0 support in it.

Funny how RH gave up on Xen right before upstream committed it... Oops!

-Ross