From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Campbell Subject: Re: Debian squeeze as Dom 0? Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2012 06:48:42 +0100 Message-ID: <1343972922.24794.2.camel@dagon.hellion.org.uk> References: <1343972073.61454.YahooMailNeo@web126004.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1343972073.61454.YahooMailNeo@web126004.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: maheen butt Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org 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.