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Date:	Mon, 9 Jan 2006 12:44:44 +0100
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On Mon, Jan 09 '06 at 12:24, Jean-Eric Cuendet wrote:
> That's the point of my question! Why would these distrib ship the *base* 
> kernel *with* Xen directly, so no need for reboot if you want Xen: just 
> start the hypervisor and go!

The Hypervisor runes above (or below) the kernel (debending on how you
view the layers in the whole sytem). But to work the Xen-Kernel NEEDS
services the hypervisor provides. Without a hypervisor the xen-kernel
will not boot.

> So the question: what is the penalty if we run Xen *without* the 
> hypervisor (so without virtual machines)
As it will not work at all, the palenty is infnit.
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