I was trying to get a NVIDIA video driver working with the Fedora 9 kernel 2.6.27.5-41.fc9 (on x86_64) and it refused because it decided it was a xen kernel, so I thought I would check this claim out. My attempts to boot a xen guest with that kernel failed, though it got past the boot loader stage, and I know Fedora 9 has kernel-xen packages, but I was wondering whether this kernel would be expected to work or not.
Michael Young
On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 14:31 +0000, M A Young wrote:
I was trying to get a NVIDIA video driver working with the Fedora 9 kernel 2.6.27.5-41.fc9 (on x86_64) and it refused because it decided it was a xen kernel, so I thought I would check this claim out. My attempts to boot a xen guest with that kernel failed, though it got past the boot loader stage, and I know Fedora 9 has kernel-xen packages, but I was wondering whether this kernel would be expected to work or not.
The F-9 kernel-xen packages are the only ones expected to work for an F-9 Xen DomU, but it does appear the F-9 2.6.27 kernels (32 and 64 bit x86) are being built with CONFIG_XEN ... so, they may well work.
Cheers, Mark.
On Fri, 28 Nov 2008, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
The F-9 kernel-xen packages are the only ones expected to work for an F-9 Xen DomU, but it does appear the F-9 2.6.27 kernels (32 and 64 bit x86) are being built with CONFIG_XEN ... so, they may well work.
The latest kernel 2.6.27.12-78.2.8.fc9.i686.PAE does indeed work as a Xen Guest, possibly as a result of the xen execshield patches being added.
Michael Young
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