Re: [Publicity] Blog post about Fedora Xen live CD

[Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On lun, 2014-06-09 at 05:19 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Jun 8, 2014 6:42 PM, Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@citrix

> > Just to let the list know, I've got the Fedora Xen LiveCD ready and 
> > working. It's nothing super-hyper-cool, from a technical standpoint, but 
> > I was thinking, after having announced it to the relevant Fedora mailing 
> > lists, to write a blog post about it (where to find it, how to customize 
> > and regenerate it, etc.)
> 
> Yes! I would very much enjoy that and it would also help in tracking some 
> bugs down (I presume the installer initrd gets created dynamically)?
> 
Well, yes and no. I guess it depends on what you mean by 'installer
initrd'. So, as far as I've understood that kickstart+livecd-creator
thing, what happens is it creates a chroot where a set of specific RPM
packages are installed, some modification to the configuration ins done,
and then it compresses everything into a squashfs image and build up the
liveCD structure (to make it bootable, etc).

So, yes, indeed what gets into the live image is dynamically generated.

Right now (as you probably have seen on the e-mail I sent to fedora-xen
and xen-users), the hypervisor and dom0 kernel image being booted are
just the same one that you find in F20 (although, the most updated copy
of it, e.g., taking updates-testing and virt-preview into account).

If you want something different, like a custom build of Xen (or Linux)
of your own, well, that is probably doable, but I'm not there yet,
mostly because I'm not sure about a few 'design' aspects.

If that is the case, I think we can continue this conversation on the
tech lists and try to move forward. :-)

As per the blog post, I'll cut it out, mostly basing on the content that
it's in the email I was talking about above, and it will be ready for
review by tomorrow EOB.

Regards,
Dario

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