EC2 2.6.18 Xen 3.1.0 kernel

This is a Xenified version of the 2.6.18 Linux kernel, it includes the patch for the recent 'vmsplice' root exploit(CVE-2008-0600) - along with statically linked Xen drivers.

Submitted By:	Attila@AWS
AMI ID:	aki-9b00e5f2
AMI Manifest:	ec2-public-images/vmlinuz-2.6.18-xenU-ec2-v1.0.i386.aki.manifest.xml
License:	Public

Some specific points from the kernel configuration:

• Default HZ timers set to 1000.
• xennet and and xenblk are statically compiled.
• xennet driver includes buffering improvements.

The exhaustive changelog for the 2.6.18 Linux kernel can be found at.

The full configuration (.config) file as well as all the modules can be downloaded at .

The source code can be downloaded from .