Xen

[Pete Ryland]

On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 04:41:27PM -0400, Shawn McMahon wrote:
> Is it a bug that we have a xen-tools package that recommends xen, but no
> xen package, or is there a licensing issue of which I'm unaware that's
> being dealt with ungracefully?

AFAIK, that package is straight from Debian, and not terribly useful without
a third-party Xen package (like the ones in Tom Hibbert's[1] repository[2])
or one you've built yourself.  I don't think there's any licensing issues,
just technical difficulty in creating supportable Xen kernels, that is
kernels that are as stable and as hardware-friendly as the regular Ubuntu
kernels.

That xen-tools package is even less useful too, IIRC, because it's written
for an older version of Xen.

Pete

[1] https://launchpad.net/people/tom-nsp
[2] http://debian.thoughtcrime.co.nz/ubuntu/