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RE: [Xen-devel] question about the guestOS boot

To: "tgh" <tianguanhua@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] question about the guestOS boot
From: "Petersson, Mats" <Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 13:17:06 +0100
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: tgh [mailto:tianguanhua@xxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 09 March 2007 12:10
> To: Petersson, Mats
> Cc: xen-devel
> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] question about the guestOS boot
> 
> Thank you for your reply
> 
> And dom0 xc_linux_build() function play a bootloader role in 
> booting VM
> ,is it right?

Yes, it's responsible for loading and setting up initial environment to
be able to start the kernel. 
The actual load is done by xc_dom_kernel_file(), which in turn uses
xc_dom_malloc_filemap(). 

--
Mats
[snip]



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