> The executive summary is: Xen does not let a kernel boot itself, because 
> mimicking bare hardware is too tedious (and pointless.) Instead, Xen 
> instantiates an instance of a kernel into the Xen environment.  To do this 
> instantiation, Xen does its own decompression, so Xen must know everything 
> about the compression.

I know you're right. But that sound stupid to me: The kernel itself
has routines built-in for decompression. Why isn't it enough to let
Xen use the same routines for decompression as the kernel?

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