[Fedora-xen] fc5 domU on rhel5 dom0

[Markus Armbruster]

Paul Wouters <paul at xelerance.com> writes:

> On Sat, 21 Apr 2007, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>
>> > So, the good news is that I got it working... the bad news seems to be that
>> > everytime I want to update the domU kernel, I have to install it, shut down
>> > the domU, loop mount domU, create custom initrd and reboot. Rinse and
>> > repeat for each fc5 domU. If anyone has a way that this can be done within the
>> > domU so I can automate it w/out having to go to the dom0, that would be great..
>>
>> I update my domUs by running rpm (actually yum) in the domU.  Works
>> fine for me.
>
> That only works for "xen aware" OS'es. It won't work to run FC/RHEL 3/4.

I'm confused.  We're talking about para-virtual guests, aren't we?
How can you use an OS that is not `xen aware' in a para-virtual guest?