[Pkg-xen-devel] Testing Xen on Lenny

[Ian Campbell]

On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 14:50 +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote:
> Ian Campbell wrote:
> 
> > If using the Debian installer method you don't need to install a domU
> > kernel in domain 0 if you use the pygrub method to boot, which is what
> > the supplied example configuration will do.
> 
> It is new for me that you can run a domU without a dom0.

You still need a dom0 of course, this is just about where the kernel
binary is installed. Xen allows you to either store the binary in the
domain 0 filesystem or to extract it from the guest filesystem using the
pygrub tool

> I am interested how I could manage such an installation. I don't want to
> go every time to the datacenter to install a new domU.

Why would you not install via ssh or similar?

> And is this paravirtualisation or not?
> If not, is it a bit slower then paravirtualisation?

It is paravirtualised.

Ian.

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