Brian "DragonLord" Wong wrote:
I'd consider the kernel non-essential in a paravirtualized environment provided by Xen or KVM, since a kernel is supplied by the hypervisor itself at boot time.
We're going off-topic, but that is not necessarily the case. You can have a xen guest boot a bootloader and load the kernel from the guest's root filesystem.
Of course, this wouldn't work in a fully virtualized or bare-metal environment. Perhaps we need separate patterns for paravirtualized/container and bare-metal/fully-virtualized environments, and have the system choose the right pattern depending on the detected platform?
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