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

[Henning Sprang]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 9:38 PM, Steve Kemp <steve at steve.org.uk> wrote:
>     xen-create....
>
>   Should work.  But I think it is best to be explicit in the
>   xen-create-image step, if you specify an --arch flag there it
>   will get passed down the chain to debootstrap.

Exactly, and I think that's the best way of doing it!

That was the one point I didn't remember from the times I did that.
debootstrap normally uses dpkg to determine the architecture - and
that doesn't work on non-Debian systems...

Henning