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[Xen-devel] Re: A proposal - binary

To: David Lang <dlang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: A proposal - binary
From: Jeff Dike <jdike@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 17:46:43 -0400
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On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 12:49:13PM -0700, David Lang wrote:
> >Why might you have to do that?
> 
> take this with a grain of salt, I'm not saying the particular versions I'm 
> listing would require this
> 
> if your new guest kernel wants to use some new feature (SKAS3, time 
> virtualization, etc) but the older host kernel didn't support some system 
> call nessasary to implement it, you may need to upgrade the host kernel to 
> one that provides the new features.

OK, yeah.

Just making sure you weren't thinking that the UML and host versions
were tied together (although a modern distro won't boot on a 2.6 UML
on a 2.4 host because UML's TLS needs TLS support on the host...).

                                Jeff

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