There are 5 versions of xen in pkgsrc, which is confusing. Explain in
DESCR which version is in which package (xenkernel3 contains 3.1), and
which versions support PCI passthrough (only 3.1). Explain which
versions support non-PAE (3.1) and PAE (3.3, 4.1, 4.2), because the
HOWTO is out of date and it's easy to end up with a non-working system
on a 3.1 to 3.3 update. Cuation that 2.0 is beyond crufty.
This is a DESCR-only change (with PKGREVISION++ of course).
(ok during freeze agc@)
- assume that Python 2.4 and 2.5 are compatible and allow checking for
fallout.
- remove PYTHON_VERSIONS_COMPATIBLE that are obsoleted by the 2.3+
default. Modify the others to deal with the removals.
Package changes:
point HOMEPAGE to http://xen.org/
looks like the Xen peoples won't put a tarball on their http server
for this; I built one from their repository and put it in
${MASTER_SITE_LOCAL}
Summary of changes since 3.1.0:
some of our patches have been integrated upstream, thanks to Christoph Egger
various performances improvements and bug fixes, including some security
fixes, and one bug that would lead to floating point register
leak/corruption from HVM to PV guests on Intel VMX CPUs.
Apply a patch (patch-b*) to xen-3.1.0 to fix the ELF loader so that the
symbol table is properly loaded for the NetBSD dom0 kernel. This is from
the Xen repository, based on a patch inistally submitted by Christoph Egger
to Xen (thanks !). Should fix PR port-xen/36671.
While there also provide a debug Xen kernel, built with debug=1.
Bump PKGREVISION.
in version numbers, and upgrade to 3.1.0.
Changes since 3.0.4:
* XenAPI 1.0 support
o XML configuration files for virtual machines;
o VM life-cycle management operations; and
o Secure on- or off-box XML-RPC with bindings for many languages
* Basic save/restore/migrate support for HVM (e.g. Windows) VMs;
* Dynamic memory control for HVM guests;
* 32-on-64 PV guest support (run PAE PV VMs on a 64-bit Xen!); and
* Blktap copy-on-write disk support.
It also fixes some HVM bugs.
