Re: [Xen-users] centos guest domain?

[Kent Watsen <kent@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Steven Ellis wrote:

> I've been running Centos 4.1 on top of Xen using the provided 2.6 
> kernel that comes with 2.0.7. Works just fine with Centos4.1 and RHEL4U1.
> Which version of Xen are you trying.

Oh, this sounds very encouraging - I'm using the xen that comes with 
SuSE 9.3, which contains the following xen-related rpms:
   xen-doc-html-2.0.5c-4
   xen-doc-ps-2.0.5c-4
   kernel-xen-nongpl-2.6.11.4-20a
   kernel-xen-2.6.11.4-20a
   xen-doc-pdf-2.0.5c-4
   xen-2.0.5c-4


As you probably already know, CentOS 4.1's kernel's version is 2.6.9-11...

For fun, I tried to boot CentOS as a guest domain using the same config 
file I used for my SuSE-based guest domain before I moved it into LVM (I 
have a 2nd drive I'm using just for staging guest domains):
   kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz-xen"
   ramdisk = "/boot/initrd-xen"
   memory = 256
   name = "CentOS"
   vif = [ 'mac=aa:cc:00:00:00:63, bridge=xen-br0' ]
   disk = [ 'phy:hdb1,hdb1,w', 'phy:hdb2,hdb2,w' ]
   netmask="255.255.255.0"
   gateway="10.0.3.1"
   hostname= "centos"
   root = "/dev/hdb1 ro"
   extra = "3"


But launching the guest domain this way led to a kernel panic.

Could you be more specific regarding how you used the "provided 2.6 
kernel" - did you copy a file into the guest's filesystem?  - which file 
did you copy?
Thanks!
Kent




_______________________________________________
Xen-users mailing list
Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users