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On Friday 30 October 2009 14:05:27 Albert Hopkins wrote: |
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> On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 20:50 +0800, Xi Shen wrote: |
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> > hi, |
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> > i am using gentoo x64. i want to try xen, but my file system is ext4, |
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> > and i cannot fine ext4 support while compiling xen-source. have i |
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> > missed something, or ext4 is not supported by xen for now? when will |
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> > it be available? |
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> You've by now noticed that the xen-sources kernel is *very* old. It's a |
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> patched version of 2.6.18. ext4dev didn't come around until 2.6.19, and |
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> ext4 proper until 2.6.28. |
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> When will it be available? That's probably a question to ask Citrix. |
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> It's basically in their hands to release a (supported) Xen kernel that's |
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> based on a more modern Linux kernel or at least get Xen dom0 in good |
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> enough shape that it will be accepted into the mainline kernel (though |
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> I'm not holding my breath). |
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> -a |
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Of course you can use ext4 in your DomU (the guest machines), since they can |
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use newer kernels. I have 2.6.30 in one of my DomUs. |
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Using this solution you will not be able to browse the DomU partition's |
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content from the Dom0 while the virtual machine is offline. You will need to |
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boot from a livecd for that purpose. |
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TopperH |
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