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...nce - very slowly - then oopses at some later point. I haven't tried dissecting the patches to see where the problem might arise. I'll try again on a machine with a serial console to see if I can get a better idea of what's failing. The patches I'm talking about are: 006-paravirt_header.patch 007-paravirt-descriptor-ops.patch 008-paravirt-structure.patch 009-binary-patch.patch 011-paravirt-head.S.patch 012-paravirt-arch-setup.patch applied to a 2.6.18-rc2-mm1 tree (with the initial part of the series as well, of course). Any ideas? J

I've updated the patches at http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/paravirt/?mf=33ba6c4fce13;path=/ to carve out the basic shape of how I see all this fitting together. These patches implement an initial set of Xen paravirt ops, as well as adapting head.S to set up a Xen-specific entrypoint. The head.S code does absolutely minimal setup, and then calls xen_start_kernel(). This installs the Xen