On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 17:41 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I've just been busy installing Xen, and noticed that there are two > different kernels available for the 686: > > xen-linux-system-2.6.18-4-xen-686 > and > xen-linux-system-2.6.18-4-xen-vserver-686 > > Both described as "XEN system with Linux 2.6.18 image on i686." > > which seem to depend on > > linux-image-2.6.18-4-xen-686 > <http://packages.debian.org/stable/admin/linux-image-2.6.18-4-xen-686> > and > linux-image-2.6.18-4-xen-vserver-686 > <http://packages.debian.org/stable/admin/linux-image-2.6.18-4-xen-vserver-686> > > both described as "This package provides the binary image for Linux > kernel 2.6.18 on i686 and compatible machines." > > I can't seem to find anything to tell me what the difference is between > the two - which has my curiousity raised. > > Anybody know what the difference is? One is for the machine to boot and the other is for the hypervisor to boot. I am not really sure which one is which, but the vserver is the hypervisor booted one. -- greg, greg@gregfolkert.net Novell's Directory Services is a competitive product to Microsoft's Active Directory in much the same way that the Saturn V is a competitive product to those dinky little model rockets that kids light off down at the playfield. -- Thane Walkup
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