https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=851338
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=851338#c51
--- Comment #51 from Mark Starikov
I edited the Wiki and added the steps as "Method 3" for using the EC2 kernel. I will note that this has some of the same challenges as recompiling a kernel - that scale, time, management, etc., factor in to having to go through these steps to install each VM. However, once they are up and running, updates become easy - just update the EC2 kernel and reboot.
I still think that having a kernel-xen-compat package in the Kernel:opensuse-13.1 repo is probably the best way to go - that way the kernel could include PCI passthrough (and perhaps some other things missing from the EC2 kernel) but would have some backward compatibility set.
Thanks Nick for adding that info - I'll see if it's possible to extract EC2 kernel directly from installation ISO. That way you can skip the whole kernel rebuilding process and install it straight away. Then you would only compile kernel if you need support for PCI passthrough etc. Yesterday, alpha release of the next XenServer version has been made available for testing: http://xenserver.org/blog/entry/xenserver-next-alpha-available-for-download.... It's impossibly to say for sure if official release will be of the same configuration as alpha(e.g. Dom0 with 64-bit kernel 3.x on Xen 4.4), but I get a feeling that this puts to rest my original doubts of if it will get across Xen 4.1 or not. If someone still interested in creating community repository for kernel back compatible with Xen 4.1, I think this would be a good place to start: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Build_Service_Tutorial , but where I stand, a number of ways to deal with this problem are available and documented. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.