Re: Detecting xen

[Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com>]

On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 16:30 -0600, Ed Brown wrote:
> It's just curiosity at this point, but I'm looking for a chicken or an 
> egg somewhere, in the loader maybe?  /proc/xen/capabilities doesn't 
> exist till the xen kernel is loaded.  Where is the magic that knows to 
> load a xen kernel during a domU install?

The domU install is (generally) started by virt-install/virt-manager
which you tell whether you want to do a PV or a FV install.  That then
loads up the right kernel and the decision is out of anaconda's hands
entirely

Jeremy