On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 22:16 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 06:59:03PM +0100, Jurij Smakov wrote: > > > I've noticed a couple of discrepancies in the debian/control file of > > linux-2.6 package, and I can't really tell whether those are bugs or > > not: > > > 2. There is linux-modules-2.6.26-1-xen-686 package. All other > > linux-module packages are virtual (corresponding linux-image packages > > provide them). It might be that this is the package containing the > > modules for domU, but in that case package description needs to be > > corrected. > > I believe these modules are for dom0 rather than for domU, with the intent > that the associated image package (if it were actually fully functional) be > shareable for both dom0 and domU? > > But then, in that case I would expect the image package to also include > various non-hardware-related modules that are useful in a domU context. > <shrug>
The other way round I think. For the xen flavour linux-modules is for use in the domU (so they can be loaded within the guest) while linux-image contains only the kernel so that it can be installed in domain 0 and you can point your xm config at it. Or you can install both in the domU and use pygrub. The -xen flavour is somewhat deprecated now that -686-bigmem supports Xen guest operation anyway, I'd be happy with making them virtual and depending on the -686-bigmem packages, but not for Lenny now... Ian. -- Ian Campbell When you're not looking at it, this fortune is written in FORTRAN.
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