Re: [Xen-users] centos guest domain?

[Kent Watsen <kent@xxxxxxxxxx>]

[sorry if you get this twice - my server had an issue when I sent the 
first response a over an hour ago and it seems as if it was never 
delivered...]

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




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