linux-kernel - Re: is kexec on Xen domU possible?

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Message-ID: <51ED7B9A.1050004@zytor.com>
Date:	Mon, 22 Jul 2013 11:36:10 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
CC:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@...cle.com>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Brandon Philips <brandon@...p.org>,
	xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com,
	virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: is kexec on Xen domU possible?

On 07/22/2013 11:33 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> I don't care about kdump, I care about kexec on domU for people who are
> running on cloud providers with old versions of Xen so that they can
> control what kernel they can boot, when they want to boot it.  If kdump
> works as well, that's just a bonus, but it's down on the list of things
> for me to be concerned about.
> 

Another valid use case, to be sure.

	-hpa


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