[Lguest] lguest and 2.6.24 ?

[Rusty Russell]

On Saturday 02 February 2008 22:13:17 Mark Wallis wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Excuse my ignorance, but I've only recently begun looking at lguest
> since Rusty's talk at LCA.
>
> I'm currently doing most of my investigation with 2.6.23 as 2.6.24
> appears to be unusable ? Is this correct ? A look at the commits
> between appear to suggest that the block device (and other core
> devices) were abstracted away so they could be used by other
> virtualisation engines, but the new versions never made the final
> release ? Am I close ?

Hi Mark,

    2.6.24 should be good, although it's always possible that we broke things.  
For the tutorial I chose to stay with 2.6.23, since 2.6.24 was so new that it 
might not boot on people's laptops...

Cheers,
Rusty.