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Written by scott
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Monday, 22 October 2007 |
The latest ASL kernel 2.6.23.1, available in the asl-2.0-bleeding channel, now supports virtualization with Xen, Vmware, KVM/QEMU and Lguest natively. This update should also correct memory handling kernel panic issues with i386 processors, as well as a new file system performance enhancement that in theory could cut down file access times by up to 30%.
Originally Virtualization support was on the list as an ASL 2.2 for release in the spring. This is one of those situations where a critical bug (i386 memory handling) lead to a major architectural change, and low and behold we managed to get virtualization working in there as a bonus. Sometimes murphy's law works in your favor.
OpenVZ/Virtuozzo will be supported as soon as it has been updated to work with 2.6.23. It was actually the first one on my list, but given the radical changes in 2.6.23, we couldn't get it in without a major overhaul. Id rather spend that bandwidth on the time-shifting file system changes we worked into 2.6.22.9.
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