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Re: [Xen-users] Is it safe to run only the XEN kernel on dom0 host?


  • To: "Fajar A. Nugraha" <fajar@xxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Rudi Ahlers <Rudi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2010 16:07:39 +0200
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On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Fajar A. Nugraha <fajar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Rudi Ahlers <Rudi@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have an issue with my XEN servers, in that when I do a yum upgrade, it
>> upgrades the kernels, and then updates the grub.conf file to boot with
>> the normal Linux kernel, and not the XEN kernel - and I tend to forget
>> to update the grub.conf, until I reboot and see XEN isn't running.
>
> Simply edit /etc/default/kernel. Set DEFAULTKERNEL=kernel-xen
>
>>
>> So, is it safe to remove the normal kernel & kernel-development, and
>> only run the XEN kernel?
>
> I do it on some of my servers.
>
>> When I want to remove kernel-headers, it wants to remove gcc as well:
>> Do I really need gcc on the XEN dom0 host?
>
> If you use dkms for some drivers, you'll need gcc. If not, it should
> be safe to remove.
>
> --
> Fajar
>
> _______________________________________________



Thank you Fajar.

If a server runs XEN, and uses the XEN kernel, then what use is the
normal kernel, kernel-devel & kernel-headers?



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