FC6Xen and FC6 kernel in GRUB

DyingMuppet · 11-06-2006, 05:50 AM

Hey Guys, I was wondering when I had FC6 x86_64, and before that FC6 x86 installed they both work fine, (but the x86_64 looks a bit more stable to me) both of the installations had a dual boot option for the FC6 2.6.18-1.2798 kernel the Xen and the normal kernel... automatically it ran the Xen kernel for some reason.
In the first place I hadn't mentioned it, but is there a real difference between the Xen and the other kernel?

GRtzz DM

snecklifter · 11-08-2006, 06:28 PM

Yes. The Xen-enabled kernel is capable of running Xen guests. Depending on who you talk to, it is still technology in its testing phase and as it has not been merged with the mainline Linux kernel and some repositories will not provide kernel modules for Xen kernels. Basically, you only need to run Xen if you know what virtualisation is and want to use it, otherwise stick with the vanilla Fedora version.

Cheers
Chris