[7.891][QUESTION][OPEN] Support for Citrix Xen (Paravirtualization)

Hi,

will there be support for paravirtualization with Citrix XenServer?

Thanks!

Regards, Mario

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0 HolgerE over 15 years ago

No, because Xen requires the 'dom0' support, which to my knowledge exists for kernel version 2.6.18 and for kernel 2.6.26 only, whereas we use kernel 2.6.32. We already support Vmware (both Server and ESX) and VirtualBox, and there are plans to even have support for Hyper-V in the future.
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0 BuBU over 15 years ago in reply to HolgerE

you should check at:

Downloads - gentoo-xen-kernel - Project Hosting on Google Code

I'm using a patch in production for 2.6.31 that I applied to an ubuntu karmic kernel and everything is working great since about 3 or 4 months...

also if you check for opensuse factory you will find sources for 2.6.33 there:

http://download.opensuse.org/source/factory/repo/oss/suse/src/kernel-xen-2.6.33-6.1.src.rpm

Xen support should be really appreciated I think... Xenserver is really a very good enterprise class solution... and basic stuff is free... so very intersting... [:)]

thx...
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0 kbr over 15 years ago

It's not that we're not interested, it's just that there are no plans to put Xen support in the first version of the Version 8 series. Whether Xen will be supported in V8.1 or V8.2 or later, has not yet been decided.
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0 anonymous_02 over 15 years ago

Hi BuBU,

Thank you. We will have a look at the patches.

Regards,
Daniel
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