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

Mark A. Williamson
2004-11-17T22:24:25Z

xen.gz is Xen itself - it runs at the highest privilege level and manages
memory, CPU time and some low level hardware initialisation

vmlinuz-2.6.9-xen0 is a Linux kernel that has been built to run on top of Xen.
It handles device drivers, the network stack, filesystems, etc.  It provides
services to applications you run.

The distribution you run on top of the XenLinux kernel (which is on top of Xen
itself) will be something like Debian, SuSE, Mandrake, Fedora, etc.  Things
like SSH, FTP, HTTP servers will be provided by your distribution.

HTH,
Mark

On Wednesday 17 November 2004 22:20, Adhamh Findlay
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.
>
> Adhamh