Xen networking on Hardy

[James Blackwell]

Hirano's patch, is very small and looks easy to read.  Users that have
tries Hiram's tiny patch have reported that domUs are fixed without
affecting dom0s negatively.

His patch is at:
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13564638/004-xen-netfront-fix.patch

Found attached to this bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/218126

Regards,
James

On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 10:54:52AM -0400, Todd Deshane wrote:
> 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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