From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N47cg-00053R-RN for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 06:39:39 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2FB14E07E3; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 06:39:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.154]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5828E07E3 for ; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 06:39:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 16so100130fgg.10 for ; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:39:36 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=xmKr8bKeeijRanRa0Y7EAkN3BHzDTr5jnKqhK+2gk7s=; b=bU2+wP4Myr1YGYGKkICJWYeSYc3jnJ5j1h7FTVWTC1tX+1/aPEj+FbuSqkU+oQjkAL ImpCtXN/DHYGk6pyz/SpEvknRs6SWrf8ATFh61aGhNGDrmiIjR/wluByHiim2rMWEdqC MyIE17ayGqoiitV7vP22pQcaSFJHbLqW/SXhk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=RG8wNoRJ3b81/jbrMu29rg4UaLwSHT15FyxA4kyidLkuOB7PxtC42kcxgfSObWFu13 XkoWnsqrFtUE/XG/KSltKrffuZWeKqPAi4YAJLBARiejrkhZB8mQ89+Y2IA1psWQKhDz H+Eb2NPua6QKjx73069CqLJwgS6CX7GmI7cJE= Received: by 10.103.78.17 with SMTP id f17mr1038277mul.7.1256971176244; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:39:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from revolver.localnet ([151.80.5.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id j10sm2168833mue.36.2009.10.30.23.39.32 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:39:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Momesso Andrea To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xen and ext4 Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 08:39:18 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.90 (Linux/2.6.31-zen5-07813-g7912398; KDE/4.3.73; x86_64; ; ) References: <53e35fd50910300550i7e202329p8f3441d9d5299c13@mail.gmail.com> <1256907927.152363.7.camel@centar> In-Reply-To: <1256907927.152363.7.camel@centar> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200910310839.18862.momesso.andrea@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 0cd77200-1377-41b1-92f1-2d9a4ad85487 X-Archives-Hash: 8972b9dda33c706c22202b0aa0e228fc On Friday 30 October 2009 14:05:27 Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 20:50 +0800, Xi Shen wrote: > > hi, > > > > i am using gentoo x64. i want to try xen, but my file system is ext4, > > and i cannot fine ext4 support while compiling xen-source. have i > > missed something, or ext4 is not supported by xen for now? when will > > it be available? > > You've by now noticed that the xen-sources kernel is *very* old. It's a > patched version of 2.6.18. ext4dev didn't come around until 2.6.19, and > ext4 proper until 2.6.28. > > When will it be available? That's probably a question to ask Citrix. > It's basically in their hands to release a (supported) Xen kernel that's > based on a more modern Linux kernel or at least get Xen dom0 in good > enough shape that it will be accepted into the mainline kernel (though > I'm not holding my breath). > > -a > Of course you can use ext4 in your DomU (the guest machines), since they can use newer kernels. I have 2.6.30 in one of my DomUs. Using this solution you will not be able to browse the DomU partition's content from the Dom0 while the virtual machine is offline. You will need to boot from a livecd for that purpose. --- TopperH http://topperh.blackmamba.kicks-ass.org