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xen-devel
Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Unofficial Xen 2.0 debian packages kinda broken
On Sat, 23 Oct 2004, Nuutti Kotivuori wrote:
> I myself think about the matter a different way. I think the kernel is
> a part of the *guest* filesystem. And inside the guest,
> /lib/modules/x.x.x should be the kernel modules, /boot/config-x.x.x
> should have the kernel config, /boot/System.map-x.x.x should be the
> system map and the kernel binary should be found under /boot. And in
> the Debian world, these things should be installed inside the guest
> filesystem by a debian package. Special cases are honeypot guests and
> secure guests where they should not have access to the kernel binary
> or something.
>
> The fact that the kernel is started from the host side (or even run as
> a normal program on the host like in UML) is just an implementation
> detail - and to behave as much like a 'real' virtual machine, there
> should be a 'boot loader' which would dig the kernel binary from
> inside the guest filesystem and then boot that, just like Grub does on
> a native system.
Do you really want to allow your virtualized users to be able to change the
kernel?
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