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[Xen-users] Re: Basic Xen Questions

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Subject: [Xen-users] Re: Basic Xen Questions
From: Ritesh Raj Sarraf <rrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 16:49:16 +0530
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Can someone please shed some light on it ?

Thanks,
Ritesh


Ritesh Raj Sarraf on Saturday 18 Mar 2006 02:03 wrote:

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> Hi,
> 
> I'm new to Xen so please bear with my basic questions.
> 
> I use Debian Kernels with add-on patches applied to it. (Bootsplash, SKAS,
> debianlogo, kdb, swsusp et cetera).
> 
> I want to try Xen too. I looked into Xen Source tarball which contains a
> "mkbuildtree" shell script which adds xen tree to my patched kernel.
> 
> My questions:
> 
> 1) If I patch my kernel with Xen, will I be compromising on any of the
> other features that I've patched ? (Namely UML and swsusp. I use UML a
> lot)
> 
> 2) So when I boot with a Xen kernel, the OS it boots into is dom0 which
> simply is my normal OS. Right ?
> 
> 3) If I'm correct about Question 2 then, "when only using dom0, does it
> add any virtualization overhead to the host OS i.e. dom0 ? Or does it
> simply function as a normal Linux Kernel with Xen features not being in
> use ? "
> 

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Ritesh Raj Sarraf
RESEARCHUT -- http://www.researchut.com
"Necessity is the mother of invention."
"Stealing logic from one person is plagiarism, stealing from many is
research."
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