Installed 12.1 m3 yesterday and noticed that there is still a kernel-xen package. Is it still necessary to
provide a separate kernel for Xen Dom0 anymore?, I thought that was finally taken care of in 3.0.
On 07/23/2011 04:26 PM, ddelin wrote:
> I thought that was finally taken care of in 3.0.
does m3 have kernel 3.0 final? i thought it just came out yesterday…
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The only Xen package I have is kernel-xen-devel. I have deleted it before and zypper didn’t complain. I was also able to build the guest additions for VirtualBox without it. I don’t know why this package gets pulled in with kernel-source and kernel-syms.
Strange, if I do a “zypper se xen” this is what I get:
suse121:~ # zypper se xen
Loading repository data…
Warning: Repository ‘Updates for openSUSE 12.1 12.1-0’ appears to outdated. Consider using a different mirror or server.
Reading installed packages…
S | Name | Summary | Type
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| jaxen | The jaxen project is a Java XPath Engine | package
| jaxen-bootstrap | A convenience package for build of dom4j | package
** | kernel-xen | The Xen Kernel | package**
| kernel-xen-base | The Xen Kernel - base modules | package
| kernel-xen-devel | Development files necessary for building kernel modules | package
| nagios-xen | A Xen Virtual Machine Monitor Plugin for Nagios | package
| nagios-xen-host | A Xen Virtual Machine Monitor Plugin for Nagios | package
| omnibook-kmp-xen | Kernel modules for Omnibooks from omke-project | package
| patterns-openSUSE-xen_server | Meta package for pattern xen_server | package
| xen | Xen Virtualization: Hypervisor (aka VMM aka Microkernel) | package
| xen-devel | Xen Virtualization: Headers and libraries for development | package
| xen-doc-html | Xen Virtualization: HTML documentation | package
| xen-doc-pdf | Xen Virtualization: PDF documentation | package
| xen-kmp-default | Xen para-virtual device drivers for fully virtualized guests | package
| xen-kmp-desktop | Xen para-virtual device drivers for fully virtualized guests | package
| xen-kmp-pae | Xen para-virtual device drivers for fully virtualized guests | package
| xen-libs | Xen Virtualization: Libraries | package
| xen-libs-32bit | Xen Virtualization: Libraries | package
| xen-tools | Xen Virtualization: Control tools for domain 0 | package
| xen-tools-domU | Xen Virtualization: Control tools for domain U | package
| xen_server | Xen Virtual Machine Host Server | pattern
| xengine | Reciprocating engine for X | package
| xtables-addons-kmp-xen | IP Packet Filter Administration Extensions | package
12.1 M3 Wed 2011/07/20 was released with 3.0-rc7 based kernel.
There’s a SuSE 3.0 “final” based kernel in Kernel:HEAD repo and Factory http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/src-oss/suse/src/kernel-source-3.0.0-2.1.src.rpm, it’s not made it to Kernel:stable yet.
If you have installed 12.1 M3 and want to update, the repo factory-tested eg) Index of /factory-tested/repo/oss rolls on, following Factory whenever certain (minimal) testing conditions are met, eg) kernel boots, X starts & zypper can upgrade packages.
As for the OP’s question, I think it’s too early to tell what 12.1 will contain regards Xen kernel, one would expect some testing of alternatives to be done before a final choice is made for the November release. Think Linux 3.1 is due too late though for inclusion in 12.1, stabilised 3.0 kernel seems a safe bet.