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Re: [Xen-users] Xen binary distrib's kernel as domU kernel

To: Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Xen binary distrib's kernel as domU kernel
From: Otavio Salvador <otavio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 21:32:39 -0200
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Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Ulrich Windl wrote:
>> On 10 Jan 2007 at 20:23, Sipos Ferenc wrote:
>>
>>   
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> just a quicky. Is it a security breach (by any means) if I run the
>>> official XenSource e.g. vmlinuz-2.6-xen kernel as my domU kernel? I
>>>     
>>
>> AFAIK, openSUSE (SLES10) uses the very same kernel to boot Dom0 and
>> DomUs. It's conventient if you think about kernel updates and kernel
>> security fixes. However each DomU has it's own copy of the kernel
>> that's used to boot the DomU.
>>
>> Never had an unsafe feeling with that.
>>
>> Ulrich
>>   
> The RedHat 4.92 beta release seems to do the same thing.

Debian also does that.

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