From: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [fedora-virt] [Fedora-xen] Dom0 xen support in Fedora 15?
To: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
Cc: "Boris Derzhavets" <bderzhavets@yahoo.com>, "Bill Davidsen" <davidsen@tmr.com>, xen@lists.fedoraproject.org, virt@lists.fedoraproject.org
Date: Wednesday, November 10, 2010, 5:30 AM

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 09:55:19AM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 10:40:10AM -0800, Boris Derzhavets wrote:
> > > And I would hope that the installer would be clever enough to see if KVM
> > > is supported and offer xen if not. Doesn't need to be default, available
> > > is fine.
> >
> > What if i don't want KVM install no matter of hardware ?
> > I will want Xen on icore7 + ASUS P6TDT+ 16 GB RAM , Dell PowerEdge and so on ...
>
> I guess you will have to manually yum install kernel-xen.  We can't
> magically know your preference, but it makes sense to default to KVM
> (by which I am really saying "default to a plain Linux kernel")
> because that is far less intrusive for users.

NB, there is no kernel-xen anymore with pvops dom0. To enable xen you
just need to yum install xen-hypervisor and update grub to boot the
kernel under the hypervisor

Regards,
Daniel
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