[kata-dev] Kata on Fedora experiment (modular kernel)

Stefan Hajnoczi stefanha at redhat.com
Mon Jul 2 16:13:59 UTC 2018


On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 01:28:55PM -0500, Jose Carlos Venegas Munoz wrote:
> Thanks for sharing your experiments. Your approach to integrate Kata shows some
> points improve to support this use case.
> 
> I did not consider in the past use the host kernel as the kata kernel but
> definitely is a use case we could support.
> 
> A couple of questions related on how to mange the kernel and image when you
> add Fedora RPMs.

Lokesh is working on Fedora RPMs.  I will leave the questions to Lokesh,
except to say that reusing kernel and QEMU packages is attractive
because it means fewer builds, fewer packages, and a smaller test
matrix.

> Are you going to add a symlink to allow the kata runtime always find the latest
> installed kata kernel ?
> 
> How are you planning to update the modules if a kernel changes ? The image will
> by generated after a new kernel update? Or every time the kernel changes you
> are going to update the kernel from package?

Stefan
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