an initial ram disk, just like a native system e.g.
# depmod 2.6.16-xen
# mkinitrd -v -f --with=aacraid --with=sd_mod --with=scsi_mod initrd-2.6.16-xen.img 2.6.16-xen
+
+
+Python Runtime Libraries
+========================
+
+Xend (the Xen daemon) has the following runtime dependencies:
+
+ * Python 2.3 or later.
+ In many distros, the XML-aspects to the standard library
+ (xml.dom.minidom etc) are broken out into a separate python-xml package.
+ This is also required.
+
+ URL: http://www.python.org/
+ Debian: python, python-xml
+
+ * For optional SSL support, pyOpenSSL:
+ URL: http://pyopenssl.sourceforge.net/
+ Debian: python-pyopenssl
+
+ * For optional PAM support, PyPAM:
+ URL: http://www.pangalactic.org/PyPAM/
+ Debian: python-pam