Re:Debian Squeeze Frozen
by hga on Friday August 06, 2010 @06:08PM
(#1582450)
Which kernel was a bit tricky for squeeze (note that the below is based on old and perhaps out of date research):
First of course they wanted to start with a stable enough one; I remember them passing over one possibility (.31???) because it wasn't very good in their and many other people's opinion.
This will be the last version of Debian that supports a Xen DomU with a patched kernel vs. pv_ops; in theory pv_ops DomU will be sufficiently solid by the following release. Doing a solid merge of the code even with the SUSE foundation is non-trivial (Xen supplies it as patches to 2.6.18).
I pay attention to this because some of what I do is with or on Xen and Debian lenny was the best DomU solution for me when I started.
First of course they wanted to start with a stable enough one; I remember them passing over one possibility (.31???) because it wasn't very good in their and many other people's opinion.
This will be the last version of Debian that supports a Xen DomU with a patched kernel vs. pv_ops; in theory pv_ops DomU will be sufficiently solid by the following release. Doing a solid merge of the code even with the SUSE foundation is non-trivial (Xen supplies it as patches to 2.6.18).
I pay attention to this because some of what I do is with or on Xen and Debian lenny was the best DomU solution for me when I started.