Bug 499850 - RFE: Implement the Xen PV-on-HVM drivers
Summary: RFE: Implement the Xen PV-on-HVM drivers
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Xen Maintainance List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: F13VirtTarget 523134 629767
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Reported: 2009-05-08 15:14 UTC by Chris Lalancette
Modified: 2011-01-05 10:04 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2011-01-05 10:04:23 UTC
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Description Chris Lalancette 2009-05-08 15:14:59 UTC
Description of problem:
In order to be a good guest when running under a Xen hypervisor as a fully-virtualized domains, we should have the PV-on-HVM drivers available in the Fedora kernel.  Unfortunately, these drivers are not yet upstream, so we have to first get them accepted upstream, and then port them (or just inherit them) to Fedora.  The good news is that much of the infrastructure for getting these working (xenbus, xen-blkfront, xen-netfront) is already in upstream, so it's a matter of getting the rest of the glue pulled together and accepted.

Comment 1 Pasi Karkkainen 2009-08-02 18:22:33 UTC
Is there someone working on this?

Comment 2 Pasi Karkkainen 2010-09-03 07:44:21 UTC
Xen PV-on-HVM drivers are now included in the mainline Linux 2.6.36 kernel (in the -rc versions).

There's also the xen.git "xen/stable-2.6.32.x" branch that has the PV-on-HVM drivers backported to 2.6.32 kernel.


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