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RE: [Xen-devel] Use paravirtualized kernel with HVM-image?

To: 'Jun Koi' <junkoi2004@xxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] Use paravirtualized kernel with HVM-image?
From: "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:30:05 +0800
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It's similar to what Jun Nakajima proposed as hybrid virtualization:
http://ols.108.redhat.com/2007/Reprints/nakajima-Reprint.pdf

However it's not a simple replace-with-pv-kernel action, since pv
kernel and unmodified linux kernel expects different low level interfaces

Thanks,
Kevin

>From: Jun Koi
>Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 12:26 AM
>
>Hi,
>
>I have a HVM image, installed Ubuntu 8.10. Now I want to use this
>image with 2.6.18-xen kernel (from Xen-3.3.1). So I replace the below
>configuration:
>
>kernel = '/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader'
>builder = 'hvm'
>device_model='/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm'
>
>
>With:
>kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.8-xen"
>ramdisk = '/boot/initrd.img-2.6.18.8-xen'
>
>
>The remaining configuration is unchanged.
>
>But then when I tried to create a VM with the new configuration, the
>VM crashed when booting kernel. How can I fix the problem?
>
>Thanks,
>Jun
>
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