Problem with the serial port in Fedora Core 6 -xen kernel
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Sun Nov 12 04:07:11 UTC 2006
On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 22:52 -0500, Jim Cornette wrote:
> >> I guess I am glad that the non-xen kernel gives you what you wanted
> >> after all (the serial port interfaces for your X11). I just assumed
> that
> >> you chose the xen kernel with the intent to run xen virtualization,
> but
> >> I am guessing that your motherboard doesn't support xen which is
> >> probably the cause of the problem in the first place.
>
> Isn't XEN restrained to a file, has no hardware unless setup to use
> real
> hardware? I am not sure about xen and machine capability but I know
> that
> my laptop with sufficient memory would stay railed at full speed and
> would not last very long with this condition. Also, on other
> computers
> the system memory is so low that xen would not work properly.
> It sounds like the problem that happened to Gene and others is even
> thinking that the xen version of the kernel would interfere with the
> operation of their computer. The thought of users was probably that
> they
> would try out virtualization at a later date. No user would suspect
> problems until they tried to setup virtualization,
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I would agree with this assessment.
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> When one installs virtualization, the kernel for xen should not be
> the
> default kernel. A normal kernel should also be installed and set to
> default.
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I would agree with this assessment too.
Assume that users don't understand all of the ramifications of the
choices they make at installation time. Gene is after all, a long time
RHL/FC user and probably representative of a typical user that checked
the box...thinking that he had heard of Xen somewhere and it may be
something worthwhile to check out.
Craig
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