[Mageia-dev] RFT: xen support

[Thierry Vignaud]

On 11 April 2011 10:33, Thomas Backlund <tmb at iki.fi> wrote:
> And as of kernel-2.6.38.2-4.mga1 there has been some cleanups and addons for
> xen:
>
> There is now a kernel-xen-pvops that also should work as dom0.
>
> Now this is mostly upstream kenel.org code so its not as fully
> featured as the old kernel-xen. You can see the features listed here:
> http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenParavirtOps.
>
> There is one exception: our 2.6.38 kernel has xen-netback backend driver
> added.
>
> So those of you that have been using xen, please test atleast the following:
>
> - check that kernel-server still works as a xen guest
> - try to use kernel-xen-pvops as dom0 and see how it works
> (you can also try to use kernel-xen-pvops as a normal xen guest)

Doesn't that mean that when running in XEN, the installer shouldn't
pick kernel-server
instead of kernel-desktop? (since we've no dom0 support in the later)
Or even kernel-xen-pvps if there's no HW support for virtualisation?