[xen-tools-discuss] centos 6, xen-tools & rinse

[Axel Beckert]

Hi Lionel,

On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 10:37:40AM +0200, Lionel Félicité wrote:
> Someone in my staff found a solution for me : I use the debian kernel
> (vmlinuz and initrd's files) to boot my centos domU.

That's interesting and somewhat surprising. I had rather the
impression that the patchsets of several distributions are
incompatible with regards to booting as DomU.

> >>> I use xen-tools taken from the wheezy repository with a squeeze dom0.

Good choice btw. :-)

> >>> Until this week, I used to create debian based domU with xen-tools.
> >>>
> >>> I'm trying to create a centos 6 domU and I'm facing a strange behaviour :
> >>>
> >>> at the end of the xen-create-image, I start the new centos domU and
> >>> anaconda launches, giving me the full setup procces.

I never run into this before, but I don't use CentOS in production at
all, I just occassionally test if the (mostly contributed) code for
CentOS still works.

I'll try it later on my test system.

> >>> Am I doing something wrong ? with debootstrap, I don't have this
> >>> behaviour, and I can't find out if it's the expected behaviour.
> >>>
> >>> Here's the command I use :
> >>>
> >>> xen-create-image --hostname=centos.lionel --install-method=rinse
> >>>> --dist=centos-6
> >>>> --mirror=http://mirror.ovh.net/ftp.centos.org/6/os/x86_64/CentOS/
> >>>> --arch=amd64 --dhcp --initrd=/boot/centos/initrd-centos-6-install
> >>>> --kernel=/boot/centos/vmlinuz-centos-6-install
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> I can't bypass the anaconda start at boot time.
>
> But my original question still exist : is this an expected behaviour or not.

As this seems rinse-related, I'm Cc'ing Thomas Lange who maintains
rinse now. Maybe he can tell us something about it.

		Kind regards, Axel
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