why did FC6 install a XEN kernel on my inspiron?

[Dave Jones]

On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 11:32:38AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
 > 
 > 
 > -----Original Message-----
 > >From: M A Young <m.a.young at durham.ac.uk>
 > >Sent: Nov 7, 2006 10:43 AM
 > >To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list at redhat.com>
 > >Subject: Re: why did FC6 install a XEN kernel on my inspiron?
 > >
 > >On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Tony Molloy wrote:
 > >
 > >> That's what I found. If you select virtulization during the install it
 > >> only seems to installl the Xen kernel. Don't know if that's a bug or a
 > >> feature ;-)
 > >
 > >It is probably a feature. If you are going to run xen subsystems, the base
 > >domain needs to be running xen as well (or more precisely a 0-domain on
 > >top of a xen hypervisor).
 > 
 > however, as an early respondent to this thread e-mailed me off list, 
 > it might not hurt if anaconda displayed a warning if you select 
 > virtualization on a non-PAE CPU system.  i think i'll "RFE" this to
 > bugzilla if anyone thinks it's worth it.
 
On a PAE-less system, it shouldn't even offer the choice of installing it.
It has all the info available to know it isn't going to work.

I'm puzzled why it _only_ installed a xen kernel.  We had that happen
before, and backtracked as it turned out to be 'not a good idea'(tm).

		Dave

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