[Pkg-xen-devel] Testing Xen on Lenny

Ian Campbell ijc at hellion.org.uk
Thu Aug 21 20:49:34 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 21:26 +0100, Sally-Anne Edwards wrote:
> 
>         
>         >
>         > domU (Lenny, 64 bit):
>         > - on dom0, install the kernel package for domU:
>         > linux-image-2.6.25-2-amd64 from Lenny
>         > - boot the domU using xen-tools
>         
>         
>         This last one is incorrect since the
>         linux-image-2.6.25-2-amd64 kernel
>         doesn't support Xen. You can either use the Etch kernel or
>         build your
>         own 2.6.27 packages.
> 
> What about the HVM support?  If that is used, will any domU kernel
> (e.g. any Lenny kernel) be valid?

I was talking purely about PV. For HVM any native kernel should work
although PV is usually preferable where available for performance.

> Using the combination of etch/amd64 kernel + lenny/amd64 dom0 + Xen
> 3.2 from Lenny for amd64, what other OSes should work with HVM?
> Solaris 10 and Windows?

Modulo bugs any native OS _should_ work. People certainly run various
versions of Windows and Solaris on Xen, some of the BSD's too I think.

The domain 0 kernel you use is largely irrelevant from the PoV of HVM
guest support, it is only the version of Xen itself which should matter

> Would it be too much to ask for a pretty table on the wiki showing the
> various combinations of architectures, packages and OSes that are
> valid?

Anyone can edit the wiki so please feel free to add one, it might be
more useful maintained on wiki.xensource.com since it would be mainly
Xen version rather than Debian specific.

I wouldn't be happy adding anything to such a table unless I had
observed it running myself, even though I know a bunch of OSes which
ought to work.

Ian.

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Ian Campbell

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