[xen-tools-discuss] Re: Debian guest on Fedora 8 Dom0

[Henning Sprang]

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Mike Brotzman <mbrotzman.jhu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks, unfortunately I am back a step because that I thought was the
>  kernel was only a directory.  I can't find the kernel anywhere on the
>  guest that I just installed which gets back to the issue that
>  xen-tools assumes I am working from a Debian install and the DomU
>  kernel is available on the host.

O.K., another sorry - I just checked - xen.tools does only install
modules package, as more is not needed.
But that has nothing to with running it on Fedora.

xen-tools does an installation into a chroot, with stuff that is being
fetched from the network, only - it doe _not_ try to copy any single
files from the host to the guest - at least bnot with kernels, and at
least not by default. I think there is an option so you can explictly
copy the passwd file, to have the same accounts on the guest as on the
host, but that is, to my knowledge, the single exception of that rule.

To get  the Kernel package, please mount the lvm volume with the
debian image first, and then chroot into it and then install the
package linux-image-2.6-xen-686 there.

(just in case you have network troubles there, make sure your
resolv.conf is set correctly inside the chroot!)

If that goes well, you will finally have a xen image in there, in
/boot/, that you can copy on the host.
At boot, the kernel and ramdisk will be used, but the modules that
might be loaded later will be taken from the guest's filesystem.

Henning