[xen-tools-discuss] questions about booting

[Brent Bolin]

what os should be listed in /etc/xen/guest.cfg


kernel      = '/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64'
ramdisk     = '/boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64'


root at lenny:~# uname -a
Linux lenny 2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Aug 12 15:17:50 UTC 2010
x86_64 GNU/Linux




kernel      = '/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-amd64'
ramdisk     = '/boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-amd64'

root at lenny:~# uname -a
Linux lenny 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Aug 12 13:01:50 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux



should the guest be running a xen kernel or does it matter?


Also how does all this work with no /boot/grub/* in the guest


#
# Configuration file for the Xen instance lenny, created
# by xen-tools 4.2beta1 on Sun Aug 29 20:48:13 2010.
#

#
#  Kernel + memory size
#
#kernel      = '/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64'
#ramdisk     = '/boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64'
kernel      = '/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-amd64'
ramdisk     = '/boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-amd64'

vcpus       = '1'
memory      = '512'

#
#  Disk device(s).
#
root        = '/dev/xvda2 ro'
disk        = [
                  'file:/disk/xen/domains/lenny/disk.img,xvda2,w',
                  'file:/disk/xen/domains/lenny/swap.img,xvda1,w',
              ]

#
#  Physical volumes
#
#
#  Hostname
#
name        = 'lenny'

#
#  Networking
#
vif         = [ 'ip=192.168.0.100,mac=00:16:3E:EE:0E:05' ]

#
#  Behaviour
#
on_poweroff = 'destroy'
on_reboot   = 'restart'
on_crash    = 'restart'