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[Xen-devel] Re: Distro kernel and 'virtualization server' vs. 'server th

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Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: Distro kernel and 'virtualization server' vs. 'server that sometimes runs virtual instances' rant
From: Michael David Crawford <mdc@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 18:10:52 -0700
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Tim Post wrote:
What, exactly is cowboy hackery? A dom-0 that might be a little slower
if you boot it without Xen?

I unpacked the source RPM to some kernel, I don't recall if it was CentOS' or Fedora's, but there were something like a hundred patches applied to the original kernel.org sources.

I don't doubt that many of those were a good idea, but it would have been a great deal of work simply to determine which ones were both important and properly implemented.

Mike
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