[ale] server virtualization

[Chris Ricker]

On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, Jim Popovitch wrote:

> I don't think so, although I don't know for sure.  I always thought that 
> Xen was virtualization of the same kernel as the host.  Essentially 
> virtual user systems, but not complete hosts (i.e. a second system with 
> it's own kernel).

No, the domU and dom0 definitely can be different kernels. For an extreme 
example, think about the fact that you can run Windows XP in domU and 
Linux 2.6 in dom0

later,
chris