From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
To: maheen butt <maheen_butt26@yahoo.com>
Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: Debian squeeze as Dom 0?
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2012 06:48:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1343972922.24794.2.camel@dagon.hellion.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1343972073.61454.YahooMailNeo@web126004.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
On Fri, 2012-08-03 at 06:34 +0100, maheen butt wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm going through the experience of learning XEN. My intentions are to
> track down changes (at source code level) required to make a kernel
> into dom 0
> kernel (if we consider that particular kernel is earlier than 2.6.18).
> while going through Xen wiki I have a confusion in my mind.
> Debian squeeze 6.0 is said to be Dom 0 kernel. Debian squeeze is using
> 2.6.32 linux kernel and once we install Debian we have to install Xen
> packages
> in which Xen enabled Linux kernel is also included. Then why we
> consider Debian squeeze as Dom 0 kernel because of its readily
> available packages?
> it is also stated that Dom 0 support was added since 2.6.37 and if we
> have a distribution having kernel 3.0 we just need to install
> hypervisor. then why we call
> Debian squeeze a Dom 0 kernel though it is using 2.6.32 kernel?
The Squeeze kernel's xen flavour is based on the old out of tree 2.6.32
pvops xen.git tree.
Ian.
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