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-9b00e5f2AMI Manifest:ec2-public-images/vmlinuz-2.6.18-xenU-ec2-v1.0.i386.aki.manifest.xmlLicense: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 athttp://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.18.
The full configuration (.config) file as well as all the modules can be downloaded at http://ec2-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/ec2-modules-2.6.18-xenU-ec2-v1.0-i686.tgz.
The source code can be downloaded from http://ec2-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/xen-3.1.0-src-ec2-v1.0.tgz.