[Mageia-dev] RFT: xen support

Mon Jan 9 11:08:31 CET 2012

On 9 January 2012 11:06, Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud at gmail.com> wrote:
+>>>> - check that kernel-server still works as a xen guest
+>>>> - try to use kernel-xen-pvops as dom0 and see how it works
+>>>> (you can also try to use kernel-xen-pvops as a normal xen guest)
+>>>
+>>> Doesn't that mean that when running in XEN, the installer shouldn't
+>>> pick kernel-server
+>>> instead of kernel-desktop? (since we've no dom0 support in the later)
+>>> Or even kernel-xen-pvps if there's no HW support for virtualisation?
+>>
+>> If 'running in Xen' means 'running as guest', you don't need any special
+>> kernel for hardware virtualisation, and just a kernel with Xen support for
+>> paravirtualisation. The dom0 support is only needed for the xen host. Which
+>> means the installer kernel itself should have xen support to be runnable in
+>> any context.
+>
+> Either we should restore alt1 in installer or we should enable DOM0 support
+> in desktop kernel
+
+I would rahther choose the later as server kernel doesn't work everywhere
+(PAE requirement on ia32...) like Fedora does
+