- <Xen kernel version> is the version number of the Xen kernel,
- e.g. 2.6.32.12-0.7.1.xs5.6.100.307.170586xen. This version number
- appears as the name of a directory in /lib/modules inside the VM.
- It always ends in "xen".
+ <Xen Kernel name> is the name of the XenServer kernel package,
+ e.g. kernel-xen or kernel-NAME-xen, without the "kernel-" prefix.
+
+ <Xen Kernel version> is the output of:
+ rpm -q --queryformat "%{Version}-%{Release}" <kernel-devel-package>,
+ e.g. 2.6.32.12-0.7.1.xs5.6.100.323.170596, where <kernel-devel-package> is
+ the name of the -devel package corresponding to <Xen Kernel name>.
+
+ <Xen Kernel flavor (suffix) > is either "xen" or "kdump".
+ The "xen" flavor is the main running kernel flavor and the "kdump" flavor is
+ the crashdump kernel flavor. Commonly, one would specify "xen" here.