On Fri, 4 Mar 2011 15:30:53 +0100 (CET), Jiri Kosina wrote:

On Fri, 4 Mar 2011, Trifle Menot wrote:

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What's the status/plan for VMI kernel at suse?

Please see the "VMI" section at http://www.novell.com/linux/releasenotes/x86_64/SUSE-SLES/11-SP1/#known_virt...

You mean this?

VMI Kernel (x86, 32-bit only)

Since VMWare and Novell and the community did improve the infrastructure in the kernel in a way that VMI is not necessary any more, starting with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 the seperate VMI kernel flavor is now obsolete and therefore was dropped from the media. Upon upgrade it would be automatically replaced by the PAE kernel flavour, which assures customers can take advantage of all the features which were included in the separate VMI kernel flavour.

Use PAE. OK.

That depicts the situation for the enterprise distribution (SLE). I don't see why opensuse should be different in this respect.

But I wonder why a VMI kernel still exists in factory/11.4? -- Web mail, POP3, and SMTP http://www.beewyz.com/freeaccounts.php -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+help@opensuse.org

On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 23:15:58 +0100 (CET), Gerald Pfeifer wrote:

On Fri, 4 Mar 2011, Trifle Menot wrote:

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But I wonder why a VMI kernel still exists in factory/11.4?

Bug?

If it's not squashed, you will have people trying to use it. -- Web mail, POP3, and SMTP http://www.beewyz.com/freeaccounts.php -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+help@opensuse.org

On 4.3.2011 15:44, Trifle Menot wrote:

But I wonder why a VMI kernel still exists in factory/11.4?

That is really an oversight. I dropped it from the master branch now. I'll keep it as is in 11.4 to not cause more harm than good. Michal -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+help@opensuse.org