Re: [Xen-devel] Debian squeeze as Dom 0?

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2012-08-03 at 06:34 +0100, maheen butt wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm going through the experience of learning XEN. My intentions are to
> track down changes (at source code level) required to make a kernel
> into dom 0
> kernel (if we consider that particular kernel is earlier than 2.6.18).
> while going through Xen wiki I have a confusion in my mind.
> Debian squeeze 6.0 is said to be Dom 0 kernel. Debian squeeze is using
> 2.6.32 linux kernel and once we install Debian we have to install Xen
> packages 
> in which Xen enabled Linux kernel is also included. Then why we
> consider Debian squeeze as Dom 0 kernel because of its readily
> available packages?
> it is also stated that Dom 0 support was added since 2.6.37 and if we
> have a distribution having kernel 3.0 we just need to install
> hypervisor.  then why we call 
> Debian squeeze a Dom 0 kernel though it is using 2.6.32 kernel?

The Squeeze kernel's xen flavour is based on the old out of tree 2.6.32
pvops xen.git tree.

Ian.




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