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xen-devel
Re: [Xen-devel] [Q]Which part of Xen is in slated for 2.6.23 kernel rele
On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 01:42:06PM +0100, Keir Fraser wrote:
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> On 21/7/07 12:21, "pradeep singh rautela" <rautelap@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> >> The scope of the patches is domU guest support. Vanilla linux 2.6.23 will
> >> not support running as dom0 (Jeremy is working on this for a future Linux
> >> release). Nor does it contain the hypervisor code itself -- you have to
> >> obtain the Xen hypervisor separately from the kernel sources.
> >
> > Great!!!
> > So this means 2.6.23 vanilla kernel can be compiled as a domU natively,
> > right?
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> Yes. In fact the paravirt_ops framework means that you can build a single
> kernel that will work natively or on Xen (or on VMware or lguest or ...).
I thought that with this initial merge, we stll had to build separate
images for bare metal vs Xen paravirt because of the way Linux uses
the bzImage, while Xen is in ELF format ? Or has this bootup difference
already been resolved ?
Dan.
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