On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 11:48:28AM +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: > On 17/10/2007, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > Does this mean I have to get hold of a different kernel for FC7 which is > > > paravirtualized? > > > > Yes. > > > > > Can you help me find such a kernel or do I have to compile one myself? > > > Is this the "kernel-xen" package or is kernel-xen intended to be used > > for > > > Dom0 (i.e. when fc7 is the host, not the guest)? > > > > For the purposes of installing a brand new paravirt guest use the kernel > > and initrd files from the directory '$TREE/images/xen/', where $TREE is > > the mounted CDROM image, or Fedora HTTP download site. Once installation > > is complete, remove the kernel & ramdisk from the guest config and add > > bootloader="/usr/bin/pygrub" > > > OK, I got the files from > http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/x86_64/os/images/xen/ > and put them both under /boot of the host (Debian) and the guest (FC7) and > used the following config file: > > kernel = '/boot/fc7-xen-vmlinuz' > ramdisk = '/boot/fc7-xen-initrd.img' > memory = 256 > name = 'fc7-01' > root = '/dev/hda1 ro' > vif = ['type=ioemu, bridge=xenbr0'] > disk = ['phy:/dev/xen/fc7-01,ioemu:hda,w'] > cdrom = 'file://root/iso/fc7/i386/boot.iso' > device_model='/usr/lib/xen-3.0.3-1/bin/qemu-dm' > boot='d' > sdl='1' Change this to 'sdl=0' and add 'vnc=1'. This will make Xen start a VNC server in the Dom0 host to which you can connect & view the guest installer. Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=| -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen
