Re: New Kernel Versions

[Satish Balay <balay fastmail fm>]

On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Alan Cox wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 05:50:42PM -0500, Joel Rittvo wrote:
> > Could someone please explain (or point me to an explanation of) the 
> > alternate builds released for the newest test kernel?  Specifically:
> > 
> > kernel compiled for Xen guest0 VM operations
> > kernel compiled for unprivileged Xen guest VMs
> 
> Xen is a para-virtualisation system for x86. It provides a secure way to run a
> lot of copies of Linux at once on a single PC. To get the speed it doesn't 
> emulate a PC exactly (as vmware tries to) but requires the kernels are
> "Xen friendly". 
> 
> The Xen guest0 kernel is the kernel that runs all the real devices and supports
> the actual hardware. The unpriviledged guests then talk to guest0 via 
> virtual hardware interfaces.

Ok - I'm a bit confused.

Does this mean 'guest0' is equivalent to vmware-host-os (i.e I boot
off this kernel on the real hardware), and 'guestU' (unpreviledged) is
the kernel installed inside the 'vm'? (aka vmware-guest-os)

or is it something else?

Satish