M A Young
2008-Nov-28 14:31 UTC
[Fedora-xen] Should kernel 2.6.27.5-41.fc9 boot as xen guest?
I was trying to get a NVIDIA video driver working with the Fedora 9 kernel 2.6.27.5-41.fc9 (on x86_64) and it refused because it decided it was a xen kernel, so I thought I would check this claim out. My attempts to boot a xen guest with that kernel failed, though it got past the boot loader stage, and I know Fedora 9 has kernel-xen packages, but I was wondering whether this kernel would be expected to work or not. Michael Young
Mark McLoughlin
2008-Nov-28 14:53 UTC
Re: [Fedora-xen] Should kernel 2.6.27.5-41.fc9 boot as xen guest?
On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 14:31 +0000, M A Young wrote:> I was trying to get a NVIDIA video driver working with the Fedora 9 kernel > 2.6.27.5-41.fc9 (on x86_64) and it refused because it decided it was a xen > kernel, so I thought I would check this claim out. > My attempts to boot a xen guest with that kernel failed, though it got > past the boot loader stage, and I know Fedora 9 has kernel-xen packages, > but I was wondering whether this kernel would be expected to work or not.The F-9 kernel-xen packages are the only ones expected to work for an F-9 Xen DomU, but it does appear the F-9 2.6.27 kernels (32 and 64 bit x86) are being built with CONFIG_XEN ... so, they may well work. Cheers, Mark.
M A Young
2009-Jan-28 11:58 UTC
Re: [Fedora-xen] Should kernel 2.6.27.5-41.fc9 boot as xen guest?
On Fri, 28 Nov 2008, Mark McLoughlin wrote:> The F-9 kernel-xen packages are the only ones expected to work for an > F-9 Xen DomU, but it does appear the F-9 2.6.27 kernels (32 and 64 bit > x86) are being built with CONFIG_XEN ... so, they may well work.The latest kernel 2.6.27.12-78.2.8.fc9.i686.PAE does indeed work as a Xen Guest, possibly as a result of the xen execshield patches being added. Michael Young