On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 10:56:00AM -0700, Brian Lavender wrote: > On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 08:39:49AM -0400, Thomas Kocourek wrote: > > I have been using QEMU for some time and the virtual machine works very > > well. Is there a way to copy over the virtual machine from QEMU to XEN? > > I was just thinking about this. Did anyone give details? Seems like you > ought to be able to create a config file, put a Xen kernel in, and be > good to go. I am about to try it, but I thought I would ask if you had > success, so I could avoid the similar mistakes. > > apt-get install xen-linux-system-2.6.18-4-xen-686 > > Oops, I just used the Debian way. This is a Fedora list. Let's just > pretend you want a Debian image then. > > yum install kernel-xen.i686 > > and then create a config file for the image, similar to this howto. > > http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Xen_DomU_Guide > > I'll give it a shot and see if it works! I created the machine using QEMU using a raw file system and it booted in Xen, but I am not getting networking to come up. I don't see a networking device. How do I get networking to appear? [root@localhost xen]# xm create -c debian Using config file "./debian". WARNING:root:Unknown image directive savedefault WARNING:root:Unknown image directive savedefault WARNING:root:Unknown image directive savedefault Going to boot Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-4-xen-686 kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-4-xen-686 initrd: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-4-xen-686 Started domain debian Linux version 2.6.18-4-xen-686 (Debian 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12etch2) (dannf@xxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)) #1 SMP Thu May 10 03:24:35 UTC 2007 After my Debian VM boots, I get this kernel message. debian:/lib/modules/2.6.18-4-xen-686# dmesg | grep eth netfront: Initialising virtual ethernet driver. netfront: device eth0 has flipping receive path. Here is my xen config file {{{ # Automatically generated xen config file name = "debian" memory = "512" disk = [ 'tap:aio:/var/lib/xen/images/debian2.img,hda,w', ] vif = [ 'mac=00:16:3e:5c:87:5f, bridge=xenbr0', ] uuid = "fc23be35-40d8-4fc4-8708-5f6ffb3f5e66" bootloader="/usr/bin/pygrub" vcpus=1 on_reboot = 'restart' on_crash = 'restart' }}} And the process I used to build the image using QEMU. {{{ qemu-img create -f raw debian.img 5G qemu -cdrom ../../iso/debian-40r0-i386-netinst.iso -hda debian.img -m 256 -boot d qemu -hda debian.img -m 384 }}} -- Brian Lavender http://www.brie.com/brian/ -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen
