xen-3.0_7608-2.1 RPM for x86_64

From SuSE Linux 10.0-OSS updates for i386 / deltas

Xen is a virtual machine monitor for x86 that supports execution of
multiple guest operating systems with unprecedented levels of
performance and resource isolation.

This package contains the Xen HyperVisor.

Modern computers are sufficiently powerful to use virtualization to
present the illusion of many smaller virtual machines (VMs), each
running a separate operating system instance. Successful partitioning
of a machine to support the concurrent execution of multiple operating
systems poses several challenges. Firstly, virtual machines must be
isolated from one another: it is not acceptable for the execution of
one to adversely affect the performance of another. This is
particularly true when virtual machines are owned by mutually
untrusting users. Secondly, it is necessary to support a variety of
different operating systems to accommodate the heterogeneity of popular
applications. Thirdly, the performance overhead introduced by
virtualization should be small.

Xen uses a technique called paravirtualization: The guest OS is
modified, mainly to enhance performance.

The Xen hypervisor (microkernel) does not provide device drivers for
your hardware (except for CPU and Memory). This job is left to the
kernel that's running in domain 0. Thus the domain 0 kernel is
privileged; it has full hardware access. It's started immediately after
Xen started up. Other domains have no access to the hardware; instead
they will use virtual interfaces that are provided by Xen (with the
help of the domain 0 kernel).

Xen does allow to boot other Operating Systems; ports of NetBSD
(Christian Limpach), FreeBSD (Kip Macy) and Plan 9 (Ron Minnich) exist.
A port of Windows XP was developed for an earlier version of Xen, but
is not available for release due to licence restrictions.

In addition to this package you need to install the kernel-xen and
xen-tools to use Xen. Xen3 also support full emulation and allows to
run unmodified guests, relying on hardware support. Install
xen-tools-ioemu if you want to use this.



Authors:
--------
    Ian Pratt <ian.pratt@cl.cam.ac.uk>

Provides

• xen

Requires

• python
• bridge-utils
• insserv
• sed
• devs
• fillup
• coreutils
• /bin/sh

Copyright

GPL

Signatures

internal MD5: 6308c9af76ba8831224fbfad9d70bf49

GPG

Changelog

* Mon Nov 14 2005 - ccoffing@novell.com
  - Includes upstream fixes to fix i586 save/restore.
* Thu Nov 10 2005 - ccoffing@novell.com
  - Include a few simple, obvious fixes: 7609, 7618, 7636, 7689,
    7690, 7692, 7696
* Thu Nov 03 2005 - ccoffing@novell.com
  - Update to hg 7608.
  - Fix warn_unused_result warnings.
  - Drop some patches (merged upstream)
  - Tidy README.SuSE.
* Tue Nov 01 2005 - ccoffing@novell.com
  - Update to hg 7583.
* Thu Oct 20 2005 - ccoffing@novell.com
  - Don't mention unwritten man pages.
  - Update xmexample* to match SUSE paths.
  - Update xs-include patch.
* Wed Oct 19 2005 - garloff@suse.de
  - Avoid race in watchdog functionality.
  - Improve network-bridge script.
* Tue Oct 18 2005 - garloff@suse.de
  - Ignore zombies in the xendomains shutdown procedure and have a
    configurable timeout for the commands. Make xendomains status
    report something useful.
  - Make xendomains script comaptible to non-SUSE distros.
* Mon Oct 17 2005 - garloff@suse.de
  - Update to hg 7398.
* Mon Oct 17 2005 - garloff@suse.de
  - Create useful xendomains init script and sysconfig file.
* Mon Oct 17 2005 - garloff@suse.de
  - Create symlinks also for -pae and -dbg hypervisor.
  - Build doxygen documentation.
  - Include block-nbd script and xen-nbd example config.
  - Include patchset info.
* Wed Oct 12 2005 - garloff@suse.de
  - Update docu.
  - Enable xen-dbg hypervisor for gdbserver domU debugging.
* Tue Oct 11 2005 - garloff@suse.de
  - Update docu.
  - Update to hg 7313.
  - Move libxenstore.so to xen-tools.
* Tue Oct 11 2005 - garloff@suse.de
  - Fix buglet in /sbin/xen-vbd.
* Mon Oct 10 2005 - garloff@suse.de
  - Downgrade to hg 7267.
  - Add troubleshooting section to README.SUSE.
* Mon Oct 10 2005 - garloff@suse.de
  - Fix typo in SrvDomain for mem-set operation.
  - Workaround: write directly to balloon in dom0 setMemoryTarget.
  - Kill xenconsoled and xenstored in rcxend stop.
* Sun Oct 09 2005 - garloff@suse.de
  - Update to hg 7278.
  - Provide udev rules to setup vifs and vbds in dom0 when domUs
    boot (kraxel).
  - Change default FS size for rescue images to 80MB.
* Sat Sep 10 2005 - garloff@suse.de
  - Update to hg 6715.
  - Fix network-bridge down.
* Thu Sep 08 2005 - garloff@suse.de
  - Build PAE version along non-PAE version of Hypervisor.
* Tue Sep 06 2005 - garloff@suse.de
  - Try to fix network bridge down issue.
  - Document netowrking and firewalling caveats in README.SUSE.
  - Enable PAE.
* Tue Sep 06 2005 - garloff@suse.de
  - Update to hg 6644.
* Sun Sep 04 2005 - garloff@suse.de
  - Update to hg 6610.
  - Rename default name of xen-br0 to xenbr0.
  - Fix pygrub installation.
  - Use libreiserfs to support pygrub on reiser.
* Mon Aug 29 2005 - ccoffing@novell.com
  - xen-bridge-net.diff: do not destroy domain 0's network setup
    when starting xend.
* Mon Aug 29 2005 - garloff@suse.de
  - Update to hg 6458.
  - Drop privileged port check -- we use Unix dom sockets anyway
    (#105178).
  - init.xend: Fix linebreaks in PID list.
  - Correctly assign insserv to xen-tools subpackage.
* Thu Aug 25 2005 - garloff@suse.de
  - Add dirs /var/run/xenstored and /var/lib/xenstored.
* Thu Aug 25 2005 - garloff@suse.de
  - Update to hg 6393.
* Mon Aug 22 2005 - garloff@suse.de
  - Update to hg 6315.
  - Include linux-public headers in xen-devel package.
* Sun Aug 21 2005 - garloff@suse.de
  - Update to hg 6305.
* Sun Aug 21 2005 - garloff@suse.de
  - Update to hg 6299.
  - Enable VNC support (depending on LibVNCServer).
* Sun Aug 21 2005 - garloff@suse.de
  - Split off xen-tools-ioemu for supporting unmodified guests.
* Sat Aug 20 2005 - garloff@suse.de
  - Enable pygrub (at the cost of depending on e2fsprogs-devel)
  - Enable VMX ioemu SDL support (at the cost of many dependencies)
* Fri Aug 19 2005 - garloff@suse.de
  - Update to mercurial changeset 6223.
  - Move /usr/libexec/xen/ to /usr/lib[64]/xen/bin/.
  - Split off -tools package.
* Mon Aug 15 2005 - garloff@suse.de
  - Create symlinks in %post.
  - Update README.SUSE.
  - Mark /etc/xen/ as %config(noreplace).
  - Fix x86-64 build (movl -> mov, lib vs. lib64 inst dirs).
  - Remove PYTHONOPTIMIZE.
* Tue Aug 02 2005 - ccoffing@novell.com
  - Fix warn_unused_result warnings
* Thu Jul 28 2005 - ccoffing@novell.com
  - Update to latest 3.0-unstable snapshot.
* Wed Jul 13 2005 - ccoffing@novell.com
  - Fixed bug in glibc24 patch that caused erroneous "out of memory"
    errors
* Fri Jun 24 2005 - ccoffing@novell.com
  - Fix gcc4 patch that caused a panic in Xen at boot.
* Fri Jun 24 2005 - ccoffing@novell.com
  - Fix xen-syms link.
* Fri Jun 17 2005 - ccoffing@novell.com
  - Fix version-check in NetWare loader (0x336ec577 -> 0x326ec578).
* Fri Jun 17 2005 - ccoffing@novell.com
  - Backport NetWare-friendly loader from Xen 3.0.
* Thu Jun 16 2005 - ccoffing@novell.com
  - Destroy domains that failed to be fully created.
* Fri Jun 10 2005 - garloff@suse.de
  - Update to latest 2.0-testing snapshot.
  - Use RPM version and release no as xen version.
* Wed Jun 08 2005 - garloff@suse.de
  - Update mk-xen-rescue-img.sh script: Handle SLES9 better.
  - Export PYTHONOPTIMIZE in xend start script.
* Tue Jun 07 2005 - garloff@suse.de
  - Merge _perform_err fixes.
* Mon May 23 2005 - ccoffing@novell.com
  - update to 2.0.6
* Wed Apr 13 2005 - garloff@suse.de
  - More gcc4 and binutils related fixes.
* Wed Apr 13 2005 - garloff@suse.de
  - Build fixes for gcc4.
* Sun Apr 03 2005 - garloff@suse.de
  - Update xen: Various fixes (scheduling, memset, domain crash
    handling) and enhancements (bg page scrubbing).
* Thu Mar 24 2005 - garloff@suse.de
  - xen-bridge-net.diff: Make sure bridge netdev is up after adding
    addresses to it.
* Wed Mar 23 2005 - garloff@suse.de
  - xen-secure.diff: Check for privileged port before allowing
    certain control operations.
  - README.SUSE: Document this change.
* Wed Mar 23 2005 - garloff@suse.de
  - Require ports < 1024 to allow controlling VMs.
* Mon Mar 21 2005 - garloff@suse.de
  - Update xen.
* Wed Mar 16 2005 - garloff@suse.de
  - Update xen.
  - Add /var/lib/xen/xen-db/ subdirs.
* Sun Mar 13 2005 - garloff@suse.de
  - Update to post-2.0.5
  - Make /usr/sbin/xm root:trusted 0750
  - Drop some patches (merged upstream)
* Tue Mar 08 2005 - garloff@suse.de
  - Update README with security notes.
  - Update mk-xen-rescue-image.sh script allowing to specify the
    kernel version to be used.
  - Rather than busy-looping, exit console on a domain that has
    shutdown.
* Mon Mar 07 2005 - garloff@suse.de
  - Update xen to latest snapshot.
  - tgif not needed any more.
* Tue Mar 01 2005 - garloff@suse.de
  - Include serial-split from Charles Coffing.
* Tue Mar 01 2005 - garloff@suse.de
  - Update xen to latest snapshot.
* Mon Feb 21 2005 - garloff@suse.de
  - Update README.SuSE.
  - Update xen to latest snapshot.
* Sun Feb 13 2005 - garloff@suse.de
  - Add init header to xendomains init script.
  - Add bridge-utils dependency.
  - Update config file and README.
  - Activate xend init script on installation.
* Thu Feb 10 2005 - ro@suse.de
  - remove te_etex and te_pdf from neededforbuild.
* Thu Feb 10 2005 - garloff@suse.de
  - Update README about IDE dma.
  - Default to dhcp.
* Wed Feb 09 2005 - garloff@suse.de
  - Update to xen post-2.0.4.
  - Little bugfix for xen rescue install script.
  - Update README.SUSE: Better explanation of root FS creation.
* Mon Jan 24 2005 - garloff@suse.de
  - Change some defaults to be more secure (xend only binds to
    localhost, ip spoof protection on).
  - Avoid ipv6 issue with xend network script.
  - Extensive docu in README.SUSE now.
  - mk-xen-rescue-img.sh creates a xen root fs image from the std
    SUSE rescue image.
  - Put boot.local script in root img to parse ip boot par.
* Thu Jan 20 2005 - garloff@suse.de
  - Update to newer snapshot.
* Thu Jan 20 2005 - garloff@suse.de
  - Update to xen-2.0-unstable (post 2.0.3).
* Thu Dec 09 2004 - garloff@suse.de
  - Initial creation of package xen, xen-doc-*.
  - i686 only for now.

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