Re: [Xen-users] Basic Question

[Michael Musson <musson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The "extra" parameter in the domain config file appends the specified
parameters to the kernel boot parameters. Add a line in your config file
that has:  extra="selinux=0"

Michael

On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 15:16 +0200, Sascha Retzki wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 02:12:05PM +0100, Shahzad Chohan wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > Thanks for the reply it was really informative.
> > 
> > If I use the create a config in /etc/xen and refer to say kernel
> > ="/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4xenU" where do I add extra flags
> > during bootup, i.e selinux=0. Do I add it to the end of this line
> > like:
> > 
> > kernel ="/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4xenU selinux=0" or do I need
> > to add to a grub.conf file in the domU?
> 
> I think you can use the root="" directive of the xen configuration file, e.g:
> kernel="bla"
> [...]
> root="selinux=0 [...]"
> 
> Never did that, but that should work (as the root=-device stuff is normally
> just passed as an argument to linux kernels)
> 
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Shaz
> > 
> > On 6/15/05, Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > Whats the difference between the xenU and xen0 kernel. Is there a
> > > > technical difference, does this relate to how xen works? Can some one
> > > > please give me a little summary of how it works.
> > > 
> > > The xen0 kernel contains all the drivers required to run in a domU
> > > (unprivileged guest) *and* all the drivers required to run in dom0 (i.e.
> > > privileged command interface, device drivers for the real hardware, etc.).
> > > This'll run in *any* domain.
> > > 
> > > The xenU kernel contains only the drivers required to run in a domU - no
> > > privileged command interface, no drivers for real hardware.  The only
> > > practical difference is that this kernel is a few hundred kilobytes 
> > > smaller
> > > but can only run in domUs.
> > > 
> > > HTH,
> > > Mark
> > >
> > 
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