Mailing List Archive: [newbie] will a xenlinux kernel boot normally?

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This might be a stupid question :), I'm just experimenting with xen and
very happy with what I've seen so far (the demo CD). Question is: Will a
xenlinux kernel boot on a real machine (without xen) ? If not, is there
a plan to support this?

I'm thinking of installing and running distros as transparent as possible.

10x,
Ovidiu
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> This might be a stupid question :), I'm just experimenting with xen and
> very happy with what I've seen so far (the demo CD). Question is: Will a
> xenlinux kernel boot on a real machine (without xen) ? If not, is there
> a plan to support this?

No, for now you have to run Xen and XenLinux together. A XenLinux that'll
also run on the "bare metal" is some way off yet - it's not that easy on x86.

> I'm thinking of installing and running distros as transparent as possible.

It's perfectly possible to dual-boot Xen/XenLinux and vanilla Linux on the
same system, though and many people do this. You just have to add a grub
entry for Xen/XenLinux and it'll be able to boot your standard distro install
into dom0.

Guest domains may be booted from a kernel in dom0's (i.e. the host's)
filesystem, so they don't have to have a Xen kernel installed on their
virtual disk in order to work.

HTH,
Mark

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