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

[Lionel FÉLICITÉ]

Thanks Axel !

Le mardi 23 octobre 2012 à 10:57 +0200, Axel Beckert a écrit :
> 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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