[Pkg-xen-devel] Re: Xen in Debian [u]

[Guido Trotter]

On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 01:11:35AM +0100, Frederik Schueler wrote:

Hi,

> I am sorry things have rushed today, things which should have better been
> discussed by all concerned persons, _before_.
> 

True, we're sorry on our part about that!

> We have been tracking xen support in the linux-2.6 source package as an 
> item on the todo list for 2.6.16 since a week or two, but we have not yet 
> discussed the details of what that means within the kernel team.
> 

And since a couple of weeks we've started working on packaging the hypervisor
and userspace utils, after some time failing to contact the current Xen
maintainer through the BTS. Sorry we have delayed reaching the kernel team! We
didn't know it was on your todo list and so we had planned to do it later, after
fixing the hypervisor! (as we thought sorting out the kernel that would have
been a bit longer term than having a better shaped and newer hypervisor and
utils).

> Looking at the components of xen, I think we should at least take care
> of the dom0 kernels, and of course stay in close contact with the
> pkg-xen team to coordinate releases with the userland tools.
> 

We fully support this course of action (as it's something we've already
discussed)! I agree with everything else you said.

Thanks,

Guido