[Fedora-xen] Upgrade FC5 Xen -> FC6

Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu m3freak at rogers.com
Fri Nov 10 00:47:09 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 16:03 +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> The solution is fairly simple though - the latest FC5 errata also provides a 
> 'kernel-xen' RPM which is PAE enabled. So before upgrading your host, just 
> make sure you have done 'yum install kernel-xen' in each of your guests.
> This will let your FC5 guests contonue working on an FC6 host - you can then
> upgrade your guests to FC6 at will.

I don't understand this.  Why does kernel-xen have to be installed in
the guest?  Doesn't the guest just use the xen kernel running in dom0?
I'm obviously missing something here.

Regards,

Ranbir
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Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
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