[Pkg-xen-devel] Possible critical Xen issue on Buster

[Garrett Reid]

That’s a relief!

Back to -user I go with my questions. Thanks for the clarification!

- Garrett

> On Feb 24, 2020, at 10:48 PM, Alexander Dahl <post at lespocky.de> wrote:
> 
> Hello Garrett,
> 
> On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 07:46:27PM -0800, Garrett Reid wrote:
>> I’ve updated to Buster, and my Xen kernel no longer boots. I believe
>> it’s because Xen only offers versions 4.11 and 4.8, while Debian’s
>> kernel images only offer 4.19 and 4.9. I’ve tried various matches
>> between linux image and Xen version, and none of them will make it
>> past loading initrd. (Booting non-Xen works fine)
> 
> I'm pretty sure you mixed up Linux Kernel versions (4.19 and 4.9) with
> Xen versions (4.11 and 4.8) here. Those don't need to match, because
> the Xen hypervisor is a different project than the Linux kernel. The
> versions happened to be quite similar by chance. 
> 
> For example my Xen host runs Debian bullseye with Xen hypervisor 4.11
> and Linux Kernel 5.4, no problem.
> 
> So your problem is probably somewhere else. You need to give more
> information on what exactly goes wrong to get help.
> 
> Greets
> Alex
> 
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