[Fedora-xen] xen to kvm migration question

[Avi Kivity]

Paul Wouters wrote:
> 2) I boot all my xens using kernel+initrd outside a rootfs image, instead
>    of a bootable virtual disk. Is that possible with kvm, or will I be
>    stuck creating bootable disk images?
>
>   

qemu provides -kernel and -initrd flags for this; however I don't know 
if virt-manager supports this.

I find that a kernel+initrd inside the guest disk image is much more 
maintainable; for example 'yum update kernel' will update your guest 
kernel rather than having to copy files around.

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