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Re: [Xen-users] FC3 domU using Xen 3.0
Henning Sprang wrote:
Dan might hit me on the head for saying this, but Fedora/Redhat _do_
things to the kernels and initrd that I call "strange" at best,
because they introduce incompatibilities and make installing other
distributions hard or impossible - I still didn't get Debian running
on Fedora when using the Fedora Xen packages, and invested quite some
time, while it is no problem with Xensource packages on Fedora - so
it's pretty sure the kernel or initrd that is "wrong" or "strange" or
"different". I can very well imagine that the same does also introduce
problems when trying to run some old Fedora version.
I don't know if that is by intention to keep business interests, or
just by accident. But they seem to ignore the fact, as also others on
fedora-xen state, that it is one important usage scenario for using
xen: running different distributions for fun and profit.
They don't ignore the fact: but they're also integrating lots and lots
of other tools, such as their grub.conf editor "grubby", their anaconda
tool for setting up initial modprobe.conf setups, their particular set
of add-on management tools which use Xen but are not part of Xen
themselves, SELinux, etc.
That can cause some incompatibility and adventures with third-party
add-ons, but I'll give RedHat and Fedora Core credit for not simply
making up things. This is as opposed to SuSE, whose models of kernel
bundling are flat-out broken.
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