Re: [Xen-users] Re: [Xen-devel] State of Xen in upstream Linux

["Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <linux@treblig.org>]

* Jeremy Fitzhardinge (jeremy@goop.org) wrote:
> Grant McWilliams wrote:

<snip>

> > Does this mean in the future all Fedora kernels will be Xen kernels?
> > Is this wise? If I try to run VirtualBox on a Xen kernel the machine
> > will reboot. If the Vbox module is loaded at runtime it will reboot
> > forever. Yes, I know it's a Vbox issue but what about KVM. Can we run
> > KVM on a Xen kernel?
> >
> > Or am I reading this completely wrong?
> 
> If you boot the kernel on bare hardware, the Xen parts of the kernel
> will basically be switched off, and play no part in runtime.  All
> hardware features and device drivers should be available as normal.  I
> run kvm on pvops/xen kernels all the time.

Does that include things like /proc/cpuinfo?  Current Dom0's seem
to lose some of the physical IDs information from there.

Dave
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