[Pkg-xen-devel] Possible critical Xen issue on Buster

[Alexander Dahl]

Hello Garrett,

On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 07:46:27PM -0800, Garrett Reid wrote:
> I’ve updated to Buster, and my Xen kernel no longer boots. I believe
> it’s because Xen only offers versions 4.11 and 4.8, while Debian’s
> kernel images only offer 4.19 and 4.9. I’ve tried various matches
> between linux image and Xen version, and none of them will make it
> past loading initrd. (Booting non-Xen works fine)

I'm pretty sure you mixed up Linux Kernel versions (4.19 and 4.9) with
Xen versions (4.11 and 4.8) here. Those don't need to match, because
the Xen hypervisor is a different project than the Linux kernel. The
versions happened to be quite similar by chance. 

For example my Xen host runs Debian bullseye with Xen hypervisor 4.11
and Linux Kernel 5.4, no problem.

So your problem is probably somewhere else. You need to give more
information on what exactly goes wrong to get help.

Greets
Alex

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