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Lucid is no more a supported version now

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
       Status: Triaged => Invalid

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Title:
  hardy->lucid upgrade using "linux-image-xen" breaks systems running in
  PV mode under xen/xenserver

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  I don't really get the decision to create a linux-image-virtual
  without support to run the OS paravirtualized on a Xen host. This will
  drive people away from ubuntu as a server system. Virtualization is
  growing on importance and not supporting something like Xen (or
  XenServer for that matter) makes no sense. There are not to few people
  using ubuntu hardy LTS paravirtualized under xen - and those people
  can not upgrade to the new lucid LTS.

  There needs to be something to support this - or at LEAST a howto page
  on howto prepare hardy and the new lucid kernel to be compiled with
  xen guest pv support. I know ubuntu focuses on desktops, but making an
  upgrade for servers virtually impossible without tampering with every
  single system is not the way ubuntu was desgined. At least in my
  undertanding...

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