Re: [Xen-users] how to add Additional Domain

[Andrew Thompson <andrewkt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeremy Fang wrote:
> According to the manual, it says: "The first step in creating a new 
> domain is to prepare a root
> filesystem for it to boot off. .... A simple way to do this is simply to 
> boot from your standard OS install CD and install the distribution into 
> another partition on your hard drive."
>  
> My current df output is like the following:
>  
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda3             33198856   2564736  28947700   9% /
> /dev/sda1               101089     24895     70975       26% /boot
> none                     65536         0          65536        0% /dev/shm
>  
> If I put RedHat 8.0 in CD and boot from there, which partition I am 
> going to choose from ?
>  
> Really appreciate if someone could shed some light on this setup.
It looks like you used up all your hard drive space in one 
partition(unless your harddrive is bigger than 34 gig).
Either install parted and resize your / partition, or reinstall and set 
up smaller partitions when you get to the fdisk stage.
It looks like your install took 2.5GB. Carving off 4-5 GB ought to cover 
that installation fine. (You can go less than that, but you might need 
to stretch things out over multiple partitions in the future.) It's up 
to you...
Once you're done with either of those steps, reboot off the CD again, 
and do a fresh install to a different place than your original 
install(say /dev/sda4 or 5 or 6). When you get to the finalize/set up 
your kernel/configure bootdisk phase, be careful you don't overwrite 
your base install.
Does RedHat use GRUB? I think it's a requirement for booting Xen, so be 
prepared to set that up as well.
For starters, download the 2.0-stable-install tgz and try booting that. 
After you get a working system, you can start fiddling with building 
your own XenLinux kernels.
--
Andrew Thompson
http://aktzero.com/

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