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Xen changes in 2.6.18-4

by Bastian Blank — last modified Jan 04, 2007 02:03 PM
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The upcomming linux-2.6 release will introduce some changes in the Xen support.

i386 gets PAE only

The i386 images gets PAE only. The main cause is a bug in this versions which makes non-PAE images crash on core dumps. The patch is from Fedora, which only ships PAE images; so it is unlikely that they will fix it.

Network breaks with older guests

There is a bug in it, which makes older kernels on the guests break on a host which uses the new version. The reason is for know unknown. The kernel logs many of the following errors:

kernel: xen_net: Memory squeeze in netback driver.
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