Xen networking on Hardy

[Todd Deshane]

I just noticed that someone posted fixes for the netfront (xennet) driver:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/218126

It is a really small patch, is there any chance it can get a freeze
exception?

It would make it a lot easier on all of us trying to use Xen especially if
it fixes the bug.

Packages are posted within both the linux bug above and also to the network
bug noted below.

I don't know if they work on hardy dom0 or not, I will test the packages as
soon as I can, hopefully others can test too.

Todd

On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Todd Deshane <deshantm at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hi James,
>
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 10:58 PM, James Blackwell <jblack at merconline.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm trying to locate more information about the Xen problem with
> > linux-image-2.6.24-16-xen. The bug causes a failure of bridging between
> > Dom0 and DomU, as documented in :
> >
> >  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xen-3.2/+bug/204010
> >
> > What are the chances of seeing a new DomU kernel before hardy release?
> >
>
> I don't think that it is likely due to the kernel freeze. I am hopping
> that maybe shortly after the release, we can at least get a working lppa for
> it. Maybe Chuck Short would be willing to host it?
>
> Upstream support in Linux is coming along pretty well. It was just bad
> timing that this bug cropped up for the hardy release. I still wonder if
> there is a chance for fixes to get in for 8.04.1 (Idea: take the latest
> xennet driver code and port it to the hardy kernel)?
>
> Going forward, Hardy+1 should be able to take advantage of the work Red
> Hat has been doing getting support into mainline.
>
> I hope that as the kernel team gets some time they can give us there
> opinions on these topics. There seem to be many that would like to help.
>
> Hardy is a big step forward, it was just a difficult release period to
> support Xen, even Fedora 9 didn't release a dom0 kernel. Xen from source
> should work well for most people that need current Xen support. Going
> forward the future looks brighter for Xen support within the distros.
>
>
> Best Regards,
> Todd
>
>
>
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > James
> >
> >
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