On Thu, 24 May 2007, jm-ml wrote: > i have an existing fedora core 1 machine and want to convert this machine to a > xen-domU on a fc6(7) dom0. > i tried the following: > - create an imagefile and format it. > - rsync the existing machine to the xen-dom0 into the mounted image file > - then i took the existing kernel of a fc6 domU and copied it to the fc1-domU You also put the modules of that kernel in /lib/modules/ ? If you don't the initrd process will break. > there is a problem during the systemboot and so i think there should be better > ways to convert the fc1 machine to a xen-domU. You're on the right track, but remember: - use an FC6 kernel+initrd and make sure /lib/modules/XXX are there - on the physical machine, build module-init-tools (fc1 still uses modutils AFAIK) and transfer this to your new image (not needed if you don't need any modules not loaded by initrd, eg disk, net, ext3,) - mv /lib/tls /lib/tls-disabled on your image - rebuild the initrd to include xenblk using: mkinitrd --preload xenblk --with=xennet /boot/initrd-2.6.20-1.2944.fc6-xenu.img 2.6.20-1.2944.fc6 - don't use pygrub to boot, but specify the kernel/ramdisk options in the xen config file. - disable sshd and only use the xen console to login (remember, FC is after all EOL) This worked to get our FC1 legacy machine virtualised. I might have forgotten something, since it's been a long time since we converted this machine. So feel free to ask if you get any other problems. Paul -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen
