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Re: [Xen-users] Re: Users can provide their own kernels?

To: "Michael Paesold" <mpaesold@xxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Re: Users can provide their own kernels?
From: Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 10:12:10 +0100
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> > So it's safe, don't worry ;-)
>
> What about guest kernels not built with ARCH=xen? Would they just crash?

If using the bootloader in dom0, Xend wouldn't even load them (since they'd 
lack the Xen ELF headers).  But assuming you did manage to get one loaded, 
it'd crash before it could even start init.

Cheers,
Mark

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