On Saturday 11 November 2006 23:07, Craig White wrote: >On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 22:52 -0500, Jim Cornette wrote: >> >> I guess I am glad that the non-xen kernel gives you what you wanted >> >> after all (the serial port interfaces for your X11). I just assumed >> >> that >> >> >> you chose the xen kernel with the intent to run xen virtualization, >> >> but >> >> >> I am guessing that your motherboard doesn't support xen which is >> >> probably the cause of the problem in the first place. >> >> Isn't XEN restrained to a file, has no hardware unless setup to use >> real >> hardware? I am not sure about xen and machine capability but I know >> that >> my laptop with sufficient memory would stay railed at full speed and >> would not last very long with this condition. Also, on other >> computers >> the system memory is so low that xen would not work properly. >> It sounds like the problem that happened to Gene and others is even >> thinking that the xen version of the kernel would interfere with the >> operation of their computer. The thought of users was probably that >> they >> would try out virtualization at a later date. No user would suspect >> problems until they tried to setup virtualization, > >---- >I would agree with this assessment. >---- > >> When one installs virtualization, the kernel for xen should not be >> the >> default kernel. A normal kernel should also be installed and set to >> default. > >---- >I would agree with this assessment too. > >Assume that users don't understand all of the ramifications of the >choices they make at installation time. Gene is after all, a long time >RHL/FC user and probably representative of a typical user that checked >the box...thinking that he had heard of Xen somewhere and it may be >something worthwhile to check out. As you know, short term memory is the 2nd thing to go, but I honestly don't recall choosing it. I did a text install and basicly just chose everything because I had a feeling x was going to be fubar, and it is, I cannot use the same 1600x1200 screen I use in FC2 because its wrapped on all 4 sides, so I have to revert to the next lower resolution but thats somehow overridden for a narrower aspect ratio. Pictures are distorted when displayed by being just obviously a bit too narrow for their height. I'll compare mode lines and make it work eventually, but thats not at the top of my list ATM. >Craig -- Cheers, Gene
