xen

[John Summerfield]

John Thompson wrote:
> On 2008-01-18, John Summerfield <debian at herakles.homelinux.org> wrote:
> 
>> I like to run xen-capable CPUs and this adds to the problems. First, 
>> with xen:
>> I like to use a framebuffer console. It's a while since I tried on the 
>> Dell so we'll ignore that for the moment.
> 
> Out of curiousity, what is the advantage of the xen kernel? I notice it 
> was installed when I installed FC8, and it seems to run fine, but why 
> exactly would I want to use it?
> 

xen is a tool that enables one to run several virtual computers on one 
real computer. For example, I can boot the Xenified kernel for F8 and 
the run Windows on that (with newer CPUs).

The grub configuration specifies Xen as the kernel, then has two modules 
directives:
title Scientific Linux SL (2.6.18-8.1.15.el5xen)
         root (hd0,0)
         kernel /xen.gz-2.6.18-8.1.15.el5
         module /vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.1.15.el5xen ro 
root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
         module /initrd-2.6.18-8.1.15.el5xen.img
         savedefault

I've used my 64-bit F8 system to run a couple of 32-bit Debian systems 
for special purposes, and tried some things with Windows.




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John

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