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

[Mike Brotzman]

So the basic problem is we can't get the guest Debian OS to boot and
we know the reason is that we don't know where A) where to get the
correct debian xen kernel binaries and B) where to put them.  We tries
to pull the xen kernel binaries from another fully virtualized debian
install we had made, but we couldn't get it to work as he didn't know
where we had to put things on the host domain.

A sample config file would be really helpful here.

Thanks.

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Mike Brotzman <mbrotzman.jhu at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  You need debootstrap on the Fedora system to create the system
>  >  initially, and to start the Debian guest, you need the kernel and a
>  >  matching ramdisk(containing important modules) of the debian xen
>  >  Kernel on the host, and inside the guest you need matching kernel
>  >  modules.
>  >  Surely, you need to put the right kernel and ramdisk lines into your
>  >  xen-tools config files and config templates - or, for testing, add
>  >  them manually into the generated xen config files.
>
>  The person who actually tried to do this is in a meeting so I'll just
>  reply to this part right now.  After running deboostrap we tried to
>  copy the appropriate kernel and modules into the guest Debian image
>  where they would normally go and didn't try to use any sort of ram
>  disk.  I'll get you more details in a few.
>