Xen packages availible for Ubuntu and Debian

[ed despard]

On Aug 29, 2005, at 2:08 PM, ed despard wrote:

>
> On Aug 29, 2005, at 1:26 PM, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>
>> On 8/29/05, ed despard <despareg at clarkson.edu> wrote:
>>> I would like to announce the availability of packages of xen stable,
>>> and unstable for both Ubuntu and Debian.
>>
>> In xen-stable, I see kernel images for 2.6.11 only, breezy is on 
>> 2.6.12.
>> What will probably break in ubuntu/breezy therefore?
>>
>> How mature are the 2.6.12 images in the unstable archives?
>> (sorry, I can test them only later this week)
>
> unfortuantly, the xen support is not in the mainline kernel, and the 
> kernel versions that are supported are determined by which versions 
> are availible in the upstream kernel source.

I meant that the versions that are availible are determined by the 
upstream xen source, not the upstream kernel source
sorry for the confusion

Edward Despard
> kernel images from unstable will not work with stable due to large 
> changes betweent eh 2.0 and 3.0 xen hypervisor interface.  As far as i 
> know, everything that is relevent to xen should work fine switching 
> from 2.6.12 to 2.6.11.  If someone really really needs 2.6.12 support 
> in stable, it would be possible to port the patch, and everyone 
> upstream would appreciate it.
>
> Edward Despard
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>>     Reinhard
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