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

[Mike Brotzman]

Thanks, I eventually just decided to punt and installed the package on
a fully virtualized Debian VM and copied the stuff over.  You need to
update the xen-tools instructions because the process is totally not
clear when the host OS is not Debian.  Anyway, thanks for your help.

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Henning Sprang <henning.sprang at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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