Re: http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/ is the Xen Wiki front page.
The following information may be a partial answer to some of the
questions on the Debian-User list regarding obtaining a Debian friendly
package as well as the difficulties encountered.
Ian (one of the leading developers of Xen) has made some comments on the
lists about "a concerted, organised group effort on debian packaging and
documentation,"
<http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2005-07/msg00254.html>
so I (the wiki page creator) created this page in the hopes that the
various people on the lists (and off) who have offered to help would
check in and leave a brief note about what they might like to do. I know
it's not very elaborate, but it's a starting point.
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Recently a new group, called the Xen Debian Team, has been formed.
You can reach them through the project page, on alioth
<http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-xen/>. They are working to
package Xen3 so it can get properly integrated inside Debian.
* Adam Heath - He's the current package maintainer. He does all the
real work in creating the Debian packages
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Yvette Chanco (b.k.a. yentlsoup) - I've been trying to help by
making some unofficial 2.0.6
<http://www.option-c.com/xwiki/Debian_Xen_2.0.6_Packages> and
2.0.7 <http://www.option-c.com/xwiki/Debian_Xen_2.0.7_Packages>
packages available, getting feedback, and by creating this silly
wiki page.
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Edward Despard - He's on the Clarkson Xenophilia team, and has
been awarded a "Google Summer of Code bounty on integrating Xen
into Ubuntu Linux." Because of the nature of the project, he has
limitations to the types of collaboration he can do, but since his
name (and Ubuntu) have been mentioned with regards to this on a
few lists, I'm adding a link to [the site where he posts his
progress <http://sparky.ath.cx/wp/%7C>].
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Ralph Passgang has created Xen 2.0.7 and Xen 3 packages for debian
sid/sarge/etch. The xen3 packages are available for 32bit,
32bit+pae & 64bit.
This is the WIKI page of direct impact to Debian Users:
http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/DebianPackageMaintenance
I will see if I can obtain the current status on LIVE Xen CDs as well as
the trial Xen Debian packages and their whereabouts. The wiki appears
not to have changed since 2006 and the following references were in
effect in 2005.
Xen 3.0.0 Packages are available from packages.debianbase.de. The source
compiles on 32bit & 64bit and there is an extra source archiv for a
32bit pae version!
Ralph Passgang's sources are here:
http://packages.debianbase.de/sources/xen/
http://packages.debianbase.de/sources/xen3/
http://packages.debianbase.de/sources/xen3-pae/
Binary packages can be found here:
http://packages.debianbase.de/sarge/i386/xen/
http://packages.debianbase.de/sarge/i386/xen3/
http://packages.debianbase.de/sarge/i386/xen3-pae/
http://packages.debianbase.de/sarge/amd64/xen3/
(Please replace sarge with sid or etch, if you don't use the debian
sarge release).
Ted
