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

AL13N alien at rmail.be
Sun Mar 31 21:28:59 CEST 2013


Op zondag 31 maart 2013 00:36:47 schreef Thierry Vignaud:
> Hi
> 
> Please let in ldetect, drakx-installer-binaries, drakx-installer-stage2 &
> drakx-installer-images.
> They bring support for installing on Xen (PV).
> 
> - 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.
> 
> Tested on Xen paravirtualising on legacy (no KVM support) HW.
> 
> Thx

that's just awesome work! i'm gonna test this on HVM-PV


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