* Xen Solaris support still required? @ 2016-11-03 12:49 Juergen Gross 2016-11-03 13:56 ` Xen Solaris support still required? Illumos Xen Pasi Kärkkäinen 0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread From: Juergen Gross @ 2016-11-03 12:49 UTC (permalink / raw) To: xen-devel; +Cc: Boris Ostrovsky Xen tools contain several sources specific to Solaris, e.g. in libxc, xenstored, xenstat, some other libs. Is this still required? If yes, all of it? Google tells me Oracle has dropped XVM support on Solaris. Openindiana seems to have replaced XVM by a KVM port. Juergen _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org https://lists.xen.org/xen-devel ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
* Re: Xen Solaris support still required? Illumos Xen 2016-11-03 12:49 Xen Solaris support still required? Juergen Gross @ 2016-11-03 13:56 ` Pasi Kärkkäinen 2016-12-04 16:57 ` Xen Solaris support still required? Illumos/Dilos Xen Pasi Kärkkäinen 0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread From: Pasi Kärkkäinen @ 2016-11-03 13:56 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Juergen Gross; +Cc: xen-devel, Boris Ostrovsky, Igor Kozhukhov On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 01:49:07PM +0100, Juergen Gross wrote: > Xen tools contain several sources specific to Solaris, e.g. in > libxc, xenstored, xenstat, some other libs. > > Is this still required? If yes, all of it? > > Google tells me Oracle has dropped XVM support on Solaris. > Openindiana seems to have replaced XVM by a KVM port. > In 2014 there was some work being done by Igor Kozhukhov (CC'd) to get Illumos (Opensolaris) Xen support improved / working.. Illumos Xen 4.3 port status: https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2014-01/msg02240.html Illumos Xen dom0: https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2014-02/msg00146.html Illumos PV domU support: https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2014-02/msg01160.html Let's hope Igor can comment if he's still working on Illumos Xen stuff.. -- Pasi _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org https://lists.xen.org/xen-devel ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
* Re: Xen Solaris support still required? Illumos/Dilos Xen 2016-11-03 13:56 ` Xen Solaris support still required? Illumos Xen Pasi Kärkkäinen @ 2016-12-04 16:57 ` Pasi Kärkkäinen 2016-12-04 17:11 ` Igor Kozhukhov 0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread From: Pasi Kärkkäinen @ 2016-12-04 16:57 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Igor Kozhukhov; +Cc: Juergen Gross, xen-devel, Boris Ostrovsky, Igor Kozhukhov Hello Igor, I noticed you're using @dilos.org email address these days, so i'm sending this email again.. see below for more info and a question for you.. On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 03:56:32PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 01:49:07PM +0100, Juergen Gross wrote: > > Xen tools contain several sources specific to Solaris, e.g. in > > libxc, xenstored, xenstat, some other libs. > > > > Is this still required? If yes, all of it? > > > > Google tells me Oracle has dropped XVM support on Solaris. > > Openindiana seems to have replaced XVM by a KVM port. > > > > In 2014 there was some work being done by Igor Kozhukhov (CC'd) to get Illumos (Opensolaris) Xen support improved / working.. > > Illumos Xen 4.3 port status: > https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2014-01/msg02240.html > > Illumos Xen dom0: > https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2014-02/msg00146.html > > Illumos PV domU support: > https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2014-02/msg01160.html > > Let's hope Igor can comment if he's still working on Illumos Xen stuff.. > > > -- Pasi > Thanks, -- Pasi _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org https://lists.xen.org/xen-devel ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
* Re: Xen Solaris support still required? Illumos/Dilos Xen 2016-12-04 16:57 ` Xen Solaris support still required? Illumos/Dilos Xen Pasi Kärkkäinen @ 2016-12-04 17:11 ` Igor Kozhukhov 2016-12-05 5:32 ` Juergen Gross 0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread From: Igor Kozhukhov @ 2016-12-04 17:11 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Pasi Kärkkäinen; +Cc: Juergen Gross, xen-devel, Boris Ostrovsky [-- Attachment #1.1: Type: text/plain, Size: 2850 bytes --] Hi Pasi, i’m using both addresses, but probably @gmale missed some emails with maillist. About DilOS + Xen. i’m using xen-3.4 - old version what i backported to DilOS based on old opensolaris varsion and upadted it to use python2.7 and some others zfs updates - more updates :) i tried to port Xen-4.3, but not finished it yet because i have no found sponsors and i have been moved to some aonther job without DilOS/illumos activities. try to do it by free time was/is overhead. i have plans try to return back and look at latest Xen. right now i try to move DilOS bulid env to use more Debian style build env and to use gcc-5.4 as primary compiler. Also, i have SPARC support with DilOS and it eat some additional free time. please do not drop solaris support :) - i’ll use and update it soon - probably on next year. I have a lot of updates on my dilos-illumos fork for xen support. and i have no illumos as is - i have more additional changes on my tree - for example: i’m using gcc5 as primary compiler intead of others illumos distributions still using gcc44. Right now DilOS can work as dom0 with pv/hvm guests, but with old xen-3.4. you can find examples for guests at: https://dilos-dev.atlassian.net/wiki/display/DS/Xen <https://dilos-dev.atlassian.net/wiki/display/DS/Xen> and sorry for missed something - xen-devel maillist is very active and i have no a lot of time to read it now :) ping me directly to my dilos.org email if you need some additional info. best regards, -Igor > On Dec 4, 2016, at 7:57 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@iki.fi> wrote: > > Hello Igor, > > I noticed you're using @dilos.org email address these days, so i'm sending this email again.. > see below for more info and a question for you.. > > > On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 03:56:32PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 01:49:07PM +0100, Juergen Gross wrote: >>> Xen tools contain several sources specific to Solaris, e.g. in >>> libxc, xenstored, xenstat, some other libs. >>> >>> Is this still required? If yes, all of it? >>> >>> Google tells me Oracle has dropped XVM support on Solaris. >>> Openindiana seems to have replaced XVM by a KVM port. >>> >> >> In 2014 there was some work being done by Igor Kozhukhov (CC'd) to get Illumos (Opensolaris) Xen support improved / working.. >> >> Illumos Xen 4.3 port status: >> https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2014-01/msg02240.html >> >> Illumos Xen dom0: >> https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2014-02/msg00146.html >> >> Illumos PV domU support: >> https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2014-02/msg01160.html >> >> Let's hope Igor can comment if he's still working on Illumos Xen stuff.. >> >> >> -- Pasi >> > > > Thanks, > > -- Pasi > [-- Attachment #1.2: Type: text/html, Size: 4436 bytes --] [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/plain, Size: 127 bytes --] _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org https://lists.xen.org/xen-devel ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
* Re: Xen Solaris support still required? Illumos/Dilos Xen 2016-12-04 17:11 ` Igor Kozhukhov @ 2016-12-05 5:32 ` Juergen Gross 2020-10-02 9:53 ` Re: [Xen-devel] " Jürgen Groß 0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread From: Juergen Gross @ 2016-12-05 5:32 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Igor Kozhukhov, Pasi Kärkkäinen; +Cc: xen-devel, Boris Ostrovsky On 04/12/16 18:11, Igor Kozhukhov wrote: > Hi Pasi, > > i’m using both addresses, but probably @gmale missed some emails with > maillist. > > About DilOS + Xen. > > i’m using xen-3.4 - old version what i backported to DilOS based on old > opensolaris varsion and upadted it to use python2.7 and some others zfs > updates - more updates :) > i tried to port Xen-4.3, but not finished it yet because i have no found > sponsors and i have been moved to some aonther job without DilOS/illumos > activities. > try to do it by free time was/is overhead. > > i have plans try to return back and look at latest Xen. > > right now i try to move DilOS bulid env to use more Debian style build > env and to use gcc-5.4 as primary compiler. > Also, i have SPARC support with DilOS and it eat some additional free time. > please do not drop solaris support :) - i’ll use and update it soon - > probably on next year. Got it. Thanks for the note and good luck for the port! Juergen _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org https://lists.xen.org/xen-devel ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
* Re: Re: [Xen-devel] Xen Solaris support still required? Illumos/Dilos Xen 2016-12-05 5:32 ` Juergen Gross @ 2020-10-02 9:53 ` Jürgen Groß 2020-10-02 10:08 ` Igor Kozhukhov 0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread From: Jürgen Groß @ 2020-10-02 9:53 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Igor Kozhukhov Cc: Pasi Kärkkäinen, xen-devel, Boris Ostrovsky, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk On 05.12.16 06:32, Juergen Gross wrote: > On 04/12/16 18:11, Igor Kozhukhov wrote: >> Hi Pasi, >> >> i’m using both addresses, but probably @gmale missed some emails with >> maillist. >> >> About DilOS + Xen. >> >> i’m using xen-3.4 - old version what i backported to DilOS based on old >> opensolaris varsion and upadted it to use python2.7 and some others zfs >> updates - more updates :) >> i tried to port Xen-4.3, but not finished it yet because i have no found >> sponsors and i have been moved to some aonther job without DilOS/illumos >> activities. >> try to do it by free time was/is overhead. >> >> i have plans try to return back and look at latest Xen. >> >> right now i try to move DilOS bulid env to use more Debian style build >> env and to use gcc-5.4 as primary compiler. >> Also, i have SPARC support with DilOS and it eat some additional free time. >> please do not drop solaris support :) - i’ll use and update it soon - >> probably on next year. > > Got it. Thanks for the note and good luck for the port! As a followup after nearly 4 years: It seems nothing has happened, and Solaris specific coding in Xen is bit-rotting further. Last example is xenstored, which lost an interface mandatory for Solaris about 1 year ago (nobody noticed, as Solaris specific parts are neither built nor tested). I stumbled over this one as I did some reorg of the Xen libraries and checked all the dependencies between those. I think at least the no longer working Solaris stuff in xenstored should be removed now (in theory it would still be possible to use xenstore- stubdom in Solaris), but I honestly think all the other Solaris cruft in Xen tools should go away, too, in case nobody is really showing some interest in it (e.g. by doing some basic build tests and maybe a small functional test for each release of Xen). So how does the realistic future of a Solaris dom0 look like? Is there a non-neglectable chance it will be revived in the near future, or can we remove the Solaris abstractions? Juergen ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
* Re: [Xen-devel] Xen Solaris support still required? Illumos/Dilos Xen 2020-10-02 9:53 ` Re: [Xen-devel] " Jürgen Groß @ 2020-10-02 10:08 ` Igor Kozhukhov 0 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread From: Igor Kozhukhov @ 2020-10-02 10:08 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Jürgen Groß Cc: Pasi Kärkkäinen, xen-devel, Boris Ostrovsky, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 2577 bytes --] Hi All, sorry for long delay with XEN. we have plans with Xen support on DilOS. i have made some changes on dilos-illumos side for it. but we have some priority to OpenZFS updates and XEN support will be a little bit later. we have plans for XEN on 2021 year, but all depends on business needs and investments. best regards, -Igor > On 2 Oct 2020, at 12:53, Jürgen Groß <jgross@suse.com> wrote: > > On 05.12.16 06:32, Juergen Gross wrote: >> On 04/12/16 18:11, Igor Kozhukhov wrote: >>> Hi Pasi, >>> >>> i’m using both addresses, but probably @gmale missed some emails with >>> maillist. >>> >>> About DilOS + Xen. >>> >>> i’m using xen-3.4 - old version what i backported to DilOS based on old >>> opensolaris varsion and upadted it to use python2.7 and some others zfs >>> updates - more updates :) >>> i tried to port Xen-4.3, but not finished it yet because i have no found >>> sponsors and i have been moved to some aonther job without DilOS/illumos >>> activities. >>> try to do it by free time was/is overhead. >>> >>> i have plans try to return back and look at latest Xen. >>> >>> right now i try to move DilOS bulid env to use more Debian style build >>> env and to use gcc-5.4 as primary compiler. >>> Also, i have SPARC support with DilOS and it eat some additional free time. >>> please do not drop solaris support :) - i’ll use and update it soon - >>> probably on next year. >> Got it. Thanks for the note and good luck for the port! > > As a followup after nearly 4 years: > > It seems nothing has happened, and Solaris specific coding in Xen is > bit-rotting further. Last example is xenstored, which lost an interface > mandatory for Solaris about 1 year ago (nobody noticed, as Solaris > specific parts are neither built nor tested). > > I stumbled over this one as I did some reorg of the Xen libraries and > checked all the dependencies between those. > > I think at least the no longer working Solaris stuff in xenstored should > be removed now (in theory it would still be possible to use xenstore- > stubdom in Solaris), but I honestly think all the other Solaris cruft in > Xen tools should go away, too, in case nobody is really showing some > interest in it (e.g. by doing some basic build tests and maybe a small > functional test for each release of Xen). > > So how does the realistic future of a Solaris dom0 look like? Is there > a non-neglectable chance it will be revived in the near future, or can > we remove the Solaris abstractions? > > > Juergen [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 18730 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
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