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Re: [Xen-users] dom0 / Xen

To: Jon Ervine <jon.ervine@xxxxxxxxx>,xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] dom0 / Xen
From: "Cathy Reddy" <creddy0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:45:18 -0700
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Thanks. Yes, it does help me understand a bit further. I am trying to 
use the xenoprof tool to collect the data from the hardware counters. 
The instructions were using xen-syms-3.2.0_16718_14_0.4.  Does Dom0 
have the accesses of the file systems of other guest VMs (DomUs)? 

----- Original Message -----
From: Jon Ervine <jon.ervine@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thursday, June 26, 2008 10:09 pm
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] dom0 / Xen

> The hypervisor should be xen-3.gz (or similar) in /boot directory. 
> Why worry
> about the -syms files? (As there name suggests they are the symbols
> associated with the kernel). Your system boots the Xen hypervisor 
> on the
> bare metal (xen-3.gz), and then the vmlinuz-xen kernel is the first
> (privileged) guest of the hypervisor and is assigned as Dom0. Does 
> that help
> clarify?
> 
> Jon
> 
> 2008/6/27 Cathy Reddy <creddy0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> 
> > I have installed SuSE 10 SP2 Xen server. There were two images
> > under /boot - vmlinux-2.6.16.60-0.21-xen and xen-syms-
> > 3.2.0_16718_14_0.4. what are these two images? I know I am 
> booting on
> > the first which is the dom0, what is the second one, is it the
> > hypervisor? where can I identify which process is the hypervisor?
> >
> >
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