Xen packages availible for Ubuntu and Debian

[Dick Davies]

Brilliant, thanks a lot for this!

On 29/08/05, 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.
> (for those who already saw the previous announcement on the xen-users
> list, see below for package changes)
> 
> The stable packages are from the most recent stable release, 2.0.7,
> while the unstable packages are from a recent nightly snapshot.
> Included are all the packages you will need to have a fully functional
> Xen installation.  This includes kernel packages built with the default
> Xen configurations, and also kernel patches that facilitate building
> kernels that more closely match your existing kernel configuration.
> The kernel packages also include a configuration system that will
> determine (or if your priority is set to medium ask you) the necessary
> xen root device, and domain 0 memory allocations.  For more info on
> this system, see the man page for the included update-grub-xen, and the
> /etc/xenkernels.conf file.  Especially of interest to many is the
> --default option to update-grub-xen, which will take steps to write the
> xen entries as the default in your grub configuration file.
> 
> These packages are available at mirror.clarkson.edu, by adding the
> appropriate lines to your sources file, and then installing the xen
> package, and optionally the appropriate kernel patch package.
>         http://mirror.clarkson.edu/pub/distributions/xenophilia/xendebs/debian
> xen-stable main
>         http://mirror.clarkson.edu/pub/distributions/xenophilia/xendebs/debian
> xen-unstable main
>         http://mirror.clarkson.edu/pub/distributions/xenophilia/xendebs/ubuntu
> xen-stable main
>         http://mirror.clarkson.edu/pub/distributions/xenophilia/xendebs/ubuntu
> xen-unstable main
> 
> 
> -- edward despard
> 
> Future goals with these packages:
>         consolidate xenu and xen0 kernel packages into single xen configuration
>         make update-grub-xen script more robust, ie add better initrd
> detection to it?
>         autobuild unstable packages nightly
> 
> Changes from packages previously announced on xen-users:
>         fixed python dependencies errors
>         removed bashisms from update-grub-xen script
>         added kernel patch packages
>         fixed bug in kernel config scripts when priority was set to high (bad
> assumptions on my part)
> 
> 
> 
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