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Re: [Xen-users] Bare Metal Installation of Xen
Anand Gupta wrote:
On 6/5/06, Petersson, Mats <Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx
<mailto:Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx>> wrote:
As there are quite a few different distros around, it would be quite a
task to do something sensible with this if you start off building a CD
with Xen as the basis, and then adding a distro - Xen + SuSE, Xen + RH,
Xen + Fedora, Xen + Debian, Xen + Mandrake, etc, etc. It's much better
to have the distributions come with Xen itself... ;-)
Oh yes it certainly is much better. However these distros have their own
ways of implementing things. For example, i had a chance to use fedora
core 5 on a live box, and i tried to use the xen version bundled along
with it. Ironically they compiled xennet as a module instead of
compiling it inside the kernel. Well editing the /etc/modprobe.conf and
adding the alias line and doing a modprobe did the trick. However it
should have worked out of the box.
I guess over a period of time, these distros will fix such issues and
life will be much easier ;)
Dunno it we can talk about a 'fix' here. Having such in the kernel
versus as a module will require a complete kernel reinstall + reboot
when a relatively smaller thing like your mentioned xennet changes.
I'd most always prefer modularization over build-into-kernel. YMMV ;)
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Kind regards,
Mogens Valentin
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