Re: [Xen-devel] XenLinux: network access?

Bin Ren
2004-11-17T22:34:51Z

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 14:20:48 -0800, Adhamh Findlay <darwin@adhamh.com>
wrote:
> Bin Ren wrote:
>
> >XenoLinux here means *kernel*. Whether you have ssh, dhcpd etc,
> >depends on which linux distribution you use. Add corresponding init.d
> >scripts to the default run-level.
> >
>
> Xen is the product, XenLinux is the kernel. Okay, what is the difference
> between the xen.gz file and the vmlinuz-2.6.9-xen0 file?
>
> I searched in the docs and couldn''t find this distinction.  Its
likely a
> linuxism that I don''t understand.

This is not ''linuxism'', but ''xenism''.

xen.gz is the image of Xen virtual  machine monitor. Xen runs on "bare
metal", and is the very first thing loaded by grub. vmlinuz-2.6.9-xen0
is the image for XenoLinux kernel. It''s loaded by Xen at the end of
Xen booting process.

- Bin