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Re: [Xen-users] PV Drivers in Linux HVM DomU?

On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 03:57:55PM +0100, Emre Erenoglu wrote:
> 
> > > Nevertheless, my Pardus can't boot with its 2.6.21 xen kernel as I guess
> > > Fedora guys likes to make some non-standard way to making INIT. (Ubuntu
> > > kernels just boot fine on bare-metal).
> > >
> > > I don't understand why I can't just replace the kernel and still boot
> > fine
> > > (good old linux days?).
> > >
> >
> > You should ask from Pardus guys/lists.. I don't what they support/require.
> >
> > What happens when you boot your domU with Pardus kernel? Is it PV domU?
> > Are
> > you using pygrub?
> 
> 
> I never tried booting into Pardus with its own DomU kernel. I always tried,
> 
>    - Ubuntu 7.10 dom0 kernel as domU, 2.6.22-14-xen, or
>    - Fedora 8, dom0 kernel as domU, 2.6.21, or
>    - Fedora 8, standard 2.6.23 kernel (with paravirt-ops)
> 
> all crashed. I'm attaching the crash report, maybe there is someone that has
> an idea why it happens
> 

Hmm.. Pardus has domU kernel available? You should definitely use that..

Always use the kernel provided by the domU distribution.. and use pygrub to
load the domU kernel from domU's filesystem (/boot).

-- Pasi

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