[Mageia-dev] freeze push: ldetect, drakx-installer-binaries, drakx-installer-stage2, drakx-installer-images

[Thierry Vignaud]

On 31 March 2013 00:36, Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Please let in ldetect, drakx-installer-binaries, drakx-installer-stage2 &
> drakx-installer-images.
> They bring support for installing on Xen (PV).

ping?

> - ldetect: add support for detecting Xen blk & net controllers (mga#9546)
>
> Once it's available, please submit:
> - drakx-installer-binaries: probe virtual drivers too (mga#9546)
>   (install from Xen hd not supported yet but fetching installer from HD is
>   not that usefull when virtualized)
> - drakx-installer-stage2: fix detecting Xen hard disks (mga#9546)
>
> Once drakx-installer-binaries is available, please submit drakx-installer-images
> (both to core/release and to nonfree-release):
> it'll include new stage1 binary in stage1 (boot.iso and all.rdz) so that
> we support installing on Xen.
>g?
> Tested on Xen paravirtualising on legacy (no KVM support) HW.