Kernel versions, xen, grub.conf, yum upgrades

[Jonathan Ryshpan]

On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 09:20 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> 
> > Apparently I did, since the file anaconda-ks.cfg contains the lines:
> >         
> >         %packages
> >         @office
> >         @...
> >         @virtualization
> >         @...
> > 
> > I feel intensely embarrassed, but I suspect that this kind of error is
> > easy to make and (as we have seen) it is hard to fix.  Maybe there
> > should be some kind of warning in the installation procedure.
> 
> I am not sure what kind of warning you expect if you explicitly selected 
> the virtualization group and got virtualization packages. That seems the 
> obvious result of the action but feel free to file a RFE in 
> http://bugzilla.redhat.com against Anaconda if you got any good 
> suggestions.

A very good point.  However (believe it or not) I have an answer.  I was
under the impression that the virtualization package allowed the Linux
kernel to provide virtual services to other kernels running on the
system.  Of course in fact it sets things up for the Linux kernel to be
a client of the xen virtualization system.  The warning might say
something like:

        This makes the kernel a client of the xen virtualization system.
        
Thanks - jon