linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.33-rc2: Xen/Guest switching to user mode with no user page tables

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Message-ID: <4B441C30.7020108@goop.org>
Date:	Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:14:24 +1100
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	Christian Kujau <lists@...dbynature.de>
CC:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.33-rc2: Xen/Guest switching to user mode with no user page
 tables

On 01/06/2010 02:48 PM, Christian Kujau wrote:
>>> The Dom0 is running a 2.6.24-24-xen Ubuntu kernel amd I'm kinda reluctant
>>> to upgrade, as I don't have a serial console to this MacMini, if things go
>>>        
> Just out of curiosity: will this be an issue in the near future? I'm
> trying to follow kernel development in my DomU, but can't upgrade Dom0 for
> quite a while, so kernel versions (DomU vs Dom0) will diverge more and
> more.
>    

No.  New domU on old dom0 or vice-versa should work indefinitely.  If 
not, report it as a bug.

     J
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