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From: Keir Fraser <keir@xensource.com>
Subject: Re: [Q]Which part of Xen is in slated for 2.6.23
	kernel release?
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 13:42:06 +0100
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On 21/7/07 12:21, "pradeep singh rautela" <rautelap@gmail.com> wrote:

>> The scope of the patches is domU guest support. Vanilla linux 2.6.23 will
>> not support running as dom0 (Jeremy is working on this for a future Linux
>> release). Nor does it contain the hypervisor code itself -- you have to
>> obtain the Xen hypervisor separately from the kernel sources.
> 
> Great!!!
> So this means 2.6.23 vanilla kernel can be compiled as a domU natively, right?

Yes. In fact the paravirt_ops framework means that you can build a single
kernel that will work natively or on Xen (or on VMware or lguest or ...).

 -- Keir