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I've been using xen in production for at least 18 years, and although there is been some development, it is extremely hard to get actual documentation on how to do things with it.

There is no place documenting how to integrate the Dom0less/Hyperlaunch in a distribution or how to build infrastructure with it, at best you will find a github repo, with the last commit dated 4 years ago, with little to no information on what to do with the code.



> github repo, with the last commit dated 4 years ago

Some preparatory work shipped in Xen 4.19.

Aug 2024 v4 patch series [1] + Feb 2024 repo [2] has recent dev work.

> hard to get actual documentation

Hyperlaunch: this [3] repo looks promising, but it's probably easier to ask for help on xen-devel and/or trenchboot-devel [4]. Upstream acceptance is delayed by competing boot requirements for Arm, x86, RISC-V and Power.

dom0less: ELC2022 slides [5] and video [6].

[1] https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2024-08... [2] https://github.com/FidelisPlatform/xen

[3] https://github.com/apertussolutions/initrd-builder [4] https://groups.google.com/g/trenchboot-devel

[5] https://www.slideshare.net/StefanoStabellini/static-partitio... [6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiELAJCuHJg




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