On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 10:24:11AM -0700, Stephen Hahn wrote: > > > A domain can be booted as either i86pc or i86xen? Can you expand on > > > > Even the "controlling" domain, domain 0, runs virtualised under Xen. Thus, > > you > > can boot either on metal, or running under Xen. Other OS instances on the > > machine will always run as i86xen. As running under Xen has an impact in > > terms > > of performance and features, we need to make the choice available at > > boot-time. > > The other option (install time) would make re-purposing a machine very > > annoying. > > So either I have no-Xen, with the image running as i86pc, or I have > with-Xen, and have 1 + N domains, all of which are i86xen? And the > postulated scenario is that I flip back and forth at some > administratively significant frequency
I don't actually expect people to regularly flip back and forth. Though we certainly will for testing purposes. Either way, it won't work properly if the platform profiles ever contain anything. > > I'm not sure what you mean here, but we're simply going to remove this > > service > > altogether. > > Please don't, unless your intent is to remove it from all i386 ISA > systems. It is. regards john
