Re: [RFC PATCH 04/33] Add XEN config options and disable unsupported config options.

From: Keir Fraser
Date: Tue Jul 18 2006 - 06:19:32 EST



On 18 Jul 2006, at 10:59, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

config KEXEC
bool "kexec system call (EXPERIMENTAL)"
- depends on EXPERIMENTAL
+ depends on EXPERIMENTAL && !X86_XEN
help
kexec is a system call that implements the ability to shutdown your
current kernel, and to start another kernel. It is like a reboot

hmmm why is kexec incompatible with xen? Don't you want to support crash
dumps from guests?

There are kexec patches for Xen which haven't yet been merged into our tree. Even without that we can take coredumps of guests from the control VM, without the guest's active involvement.

-- Keir

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