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Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 11:36:10 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
CC: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
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Subject: Re: is kexec on Xen domU possible?
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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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