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Re: [Xen-users] FC3 domU using Xen 3.0 
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Henning Sprang wrote:
 They don't ignore the fact: but they're also integrating lots and lots 
of other tools, such as their grub.conf editor "grubby", their anaconda 
tool for setting up initial modprobe.conf setups, their particular set 
of add-on management tools which use Xen but are not part of Xen 
themselves, SELinux, etc.
Dan might hit me on the head for saying this, but Fedora/Redhat _do_
things to the kernels and initrd that I call "strange" at best,
because they introduce incompatibilities and make installing other
distributions hard or impossible - I still didn't get Debian running
on Fedora when using the Fedora Xen packages, and invested quite some
time, while it is no problem with Xensource packages on Fedora - so
it's pretty sure the kernel or initrd that is "wrong" or "strange" or
"different". I can very well imagine that the same does also introduce
problems when trying to run some old Fedora version.
I don't know if that is by intention to keep business interests, or
just by accident. But they seem to ignore the fact, as also others on
fedora-xen state, that it is one important usage scenario for using
xen: running different distributions for fun and profit.
 
That can cause some incompatibility and adventures with third-party 
add-ons, but I'll give RedHat and Fedora Core credit for not simply 
making up things. This is as opposed to SuSE, whose models of kernel 
bundling are flat-out broken. 
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