Bug 449688

Summary: [Chapter 13.1] PV-Introduction.xml:
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Michael Hideo <mhideo>
Component: doc-Virtualization_GuideAssignee: Christopher Curran <ccurran>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Don Domingo <ddomingo>
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Version: 5.2CC: ddutile
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URL: http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.2/html/Virtualization/sect-Virtualization-Introduction_to_Para_virtualized_Drivers-System_requirements.html
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Description Michael Hideo 2008-06-03 01:27:18 UTC
There should be a statement that clarifies that the “Minimum guest operating
system version” are architecture dependant

Comment 1 Christopher Curran 2008-06-05 04:24:43 UTC
updated and fixed. Needs tech review

Comment 2 Bill Burns 2008-10-22 13:04:31 UTC
Don Dutile can you review this please?

Comment 3 Don Dutile (Red Hat) 2008-10-27 22:34:21 UTC
All architectures: i686 & x86_64  have the same minimum guest operating system version.


*BUT*, this section now brings to light another issue:
  RHEL4.7 has the xen pv-on-hvm drivers built into the kernel package.
  RHEL5.3 has the xen pv-on-hvm drivers built into the kernel package.

so the kmod-xenpv package is no longer needed in RHEL4 in 4.7 & beyond
and the same goes for RHEL5 in 5.3 & beyond.


This should be noted in this section.

Comment 4 Christopher Curran 2008-11-06 07:17:44 UTC
Just verifying my work as I'm getting tired and worried about the accuracy of this update.

<important><title>Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.7 and 5.3 and newer</title><para>
				All version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux from 4.7 and 5.3 have the kernel module for the para-virtualized drivers, the <systemitem>pv-on-hvm</systemitem> module, in the default kernel package. That means the para-virtualized drivers are available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.7 and newer or 5.3 and newer guests.</para></important>

Would that satisfy the note for the section?

Comment 5 Don Dutile (Red Hat) 2008-11-06 15:12:22 UTC
I would slightly clarify it this way:

<important><title>Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.7 and 5.3 and newer</title><para>
    All versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux from 4.7 and 5.3 have the kernel
modules for the Xen para-virtualized drivers, the <systemitem>pv-on-hvm</systemitem>
modules, in the default kernel package. That means the para-virtualized drivers
are available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.7 and newer or 5.3 and newer
guests without adding the asynchronous kmod-xenpv package.</para></important>