[fedora-virt] [Fedora-xen] Dom0 xen support in Fedora 15?

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Wed Nov 10 09:55:19 UTC 2010


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.

Rich.

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