Re: next chapter in domUbuntu was:Re: [Xen-users] Xen newbie question

["Eric S. Johansson" <esj@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Mey wrote:
> lines 2 -6 as it was recommended in some forum - but it didn't work for me. So 
> I decided to debootstrap me some debain domU :)
yes, I tried the debootstrap route and sat there watching in childlike 
wonder as it presented me with a rainbow of failures.  Left me muttering 
something about rocket club open source projects as I am often given to 
doing lately.
still, I think the QEMU based methodology has merit as it has a good 
probability of being completely OS distribution independent and is much 
much faster when deploying a new domU.  Major problems being extracting 
partitions and the warning message I described earlier.
I tried the dd and resize trick last night.  It worked really really 
well.  The primary advantage of the copy method of propagating domU is 
that it allows you to change filesystems to something other than what 
you have on your baseline image.  When I created the baseline domU 
filesystem, I added dir_index  to the mkfs specification.  I've also 
created reiserfs  / filesystems from a ext3 baseline image.
anyway, I am happier than I've been in while and now I need to migrate 
all of my old gentoo xen 2.0.4 domU partitions over to ubuntu domU's
---eric

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