Re: why did FC6 install a XEN kernel on my inspiron?

[Robert P. J. Day]

-----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Horsley 
> Sent: Nov 7, 2006 9:41 AM
> To: [e-mail]
> Cc: For users of Fedora 
> Subject: Re: why did FC6 install a XEN kernel on my inspiron?
>
> My system can support Xen, but I was also surprised to find nothing
> except a Xen kernel installed when I did a clean install. I had to
> install the non-Xen kernel via yum.
>
> I don't know if you can run yum install from rescue mode, but that might
> be an option to get the non-Xen kernel if you can't boot at all with the
> Xen kernel.

i believe my error was that i've never played with XEN before and, during
the install, i selected "virtualization" thinking, "hey, maybe i'll get around
to playing with that some day."

as i read it now, selecting that was what gave me the XEN kernel to begin
with, is that right?

rday

why did FC6 install a XEN kernel on my inspiron?

[Tony Molloy]

On Tuesday 07 November 2006 14:51, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tom Horsley 
> > Sent: Nov 7, 2006 9:41 AM
> > To: [e-mail]
> > Cc: For users of Fedora 
> > Subject: Re: why did FC6 install a XEN kernel on my inspiron?
> >
> > My system can support Xen, but I was also surprised to find nothing
> > except a Xen kernel installed when I did a clean install. I had to
> > install the non-Xen kernel via yum.
> >
> > I don't know if you can run yum install from rescue mode, but that
> > might be an option to get the non-Xen kernel if you can't boot at all
> > with the Xen kernel.
>
> i believe my error was that i've never played with XEN before and,
> during the install, i selected "virtualization" thinking, "hey, maybe
> i'll get around to playing with that some day."
>
> as i read it now, selecting that was what gave me the XEN kernel to
> begin with, is that right?
>
> rday

That's what I found. If you select virtulization during the install it 
only seems to installl the Xen kernel. Don't know if that's a bug or a 
feature ;-)

Tony

why did FC6 install a XEN kernel on my inspiron?

[M A Young]

On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Tony Molloy wrote:
> That's what I found. If you select virtulization during the install it
> only seems to installl the Xen kernel. Don't know if that's a bug or a
> feature ;-)

It is probably a feature. If you are going to run xen subsystems, the base
domain needs to be running xen as well (or more precisely a 0-domain on
top of a xen hypervisor).

Michael Young