From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael David Crawford Subject: Re: Distro kernel and 'virtualization server' vs. 'server that sometimes runs virtual instances' rant Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 18:10:52 -0700 Message-ID: <4A20879C.8050209@prgmr.com> References: <1243517950.5849.151.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1243517950.5849.151.camel@localhost.localdomain> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Xen-devel List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Tim Post wrote: > What, exactly is cowboy hackery? A dom-0 that might be a little slower > if you boot it without Xen? I unpacked the source RPM to some kernel, I don't recall if it was CentOS' or Fedora's, but there were something like a hundred patches applied to the original kernel.org sources. I don't doubt that many of those were a good idea, but it would have been a great deal of work simply to determine which ones were both important and properly implemented. Mike -- Michael David Crawford mdc@prgmr.com prgmr.com - We Don't Assume You Are Stupid. Xen-Powered Virtual Private Servers: http://prgmr.com/xen