Xen users - May 2005 - [newbie] will a xenlinux kernel boot normally?

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This might be a stupid question :), I''m just experimenting with xen and
very happy with what I''ve seen so far (the demo CD). Question is: Will
a
xenlinux kernel boot on a real machine (without xen) ? If not, is there
a plan to support this?

I''m thinking of installing and running distros as transparent as
possible.

10x,
Ovidiu
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> This might be a stupid question :), I''m just experimenting with
xen and
> very happy with what I''ve seen so far (the demo CD). Question is:
Will a
> xenlinux kernel boot on a real machine (without xen) ? If not, is there
> a plan to support this?
No, for now you have to run Xen and XenLinux together.  A XenLinux
that''ll
also run on the "bare metal" is some way off yet - it''s not
that easy on x86.
> I''m thinking of installing and running distros as transparent as
possible.
It''s perfectly possible to dual-boot Xen/XenLinux and vanilla Linux on
the
same system, though and many people do this.  You just have to add a grub 
entry for Xen/XenLinux and it''ll be able to boot your standard distro
install
into dom0.

Guest domains may be booted from a kernel in dom0''s (i.e. the
host''s)
filesystem, so they don''t have to have a Xen kernel installed on their 
virtual disk in order to work.

HTH,
Mark

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