Detecting xen
Jeremy Katz
katzj at redhat.com
Wed Jun 4 22:38:15 UTC 2008
On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 16:30 -0600, Ed Brown wrote:
> It's just curiosity at this point, but I'm looking for a chicken or an
> egg somewhere, in the loader maybe? /proc/xen/capabilities doesn't
> exist till the xen kernel is loaded. Where is the magic that knows to
> load a xen kernel during a domU install?
The domU install is (generally) started by virt-install/virt-manager
which you tell whether you want to do a PV or a FV install. That then
loads up the right kernel and the decision is out of anaconda's hands
entirely
Jeremy
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