[kernel-xen] Building a 2.6.32 kernel with Xen

[Glenn Enright]

On 06/03/13 12:38, Steven Haigh wrote:
> On 6/03/2013 10:21 AM, Ellison Marks wrote:
>> Because of organizational reasons, we can't upgrade to the 3.x kernel
>> you're providing. I hope it's not too much to ask, but could you please
>> provide a tutorial on building a Xen enabled kernel for CentOS 6.3, so
>> we could roll our own?
>
> Thats unlucky... 2.6.32 is a bit of a lost cause these days... Jeremy 
> used to maintain a xen dom0 kernel source for 2.6.32, but he hadn't 
> updated it in many months.
>
> From what I recall, vanilla 2.6.32 does not support half the features 
> - and I'm stretching my memory now - but it may not even support 
> running out of the box as a Dom0.
>
> The main reason I've moved on to 3.x is the lack of updates / security 
> fixes and the lack of patches for 2.6.32. All the development and 
> updates are now happening on the 3.x branch.
>
> -- 
> Steven Haigh
>
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Ellison in case it help you advocate for one of the newer 3.x releases 
the following may help...

* on why Linus changed the numbering 
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1147415 Note that the change 
is not like the 2.4-2.6 change which included a significant redesign of 
lots of core things

"I decided to just bite the bullet, and call the next version 3.0," he 
wrote in a thread <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1147415> 
on gmane.org. "It will get released close enough to the 20-year mark, 
which is excuse enough for me, although honestly, the real reason is 
just that I can no longe rcomfortably count as high as 40."

* on stable releases, Greg Kroah-Hartman (of the main kernel 
developement team) is long-term supporting a couple 3.x releases that 
are being used by various distributions. latest on that at 
http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/3.8-is_not_longterm_stable.html

Regards, Glenn
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