hardy->lucid upgrade using "linux-image-xen" breaks systems running in PV mode under xen/xenserver
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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linux (Ubuntu) |
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High
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Bug Description
I don't really get the decision to create a linux-image-virtual without support to run the OS paravirtualized on a Xen host. This will drive people away from ubuntu as a server system. Virtualization is growing on importance and not supporting something like Xen (or XenServer for that matter) makes no sense. There are not to few people using ubuntu hardy LTS paravirtualized under xen - and those people can not upgrade to the new lucid LTS.
There needs to be something to support this - or at LEAST a howto page on howto prepare hardy and the new lucid kernel to be compiled with xen guest pv support. I know ubuntu focuses on desktops, but making an upgrade for servers virtually impossible without tampering with every single system is not the way ubuntu was desgined. At least in my undertanding...
Changed in linux (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Incomplete → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → High |
I agree. Ubuntu is def. the Linux distribution of choice for our servers, and now that we have a XenServer setup it is a bit frustrating that the later distributions of Ubuntu seem to be the only ones that lack a simple a way to get it running paravirtualized under Xen.