Re: [Xen-users] boot existing OS

[Peter <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tomas Florian wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The part about sda1 looks weird to me - actuall your whole thing looks 
> weird.... the idea is to map the phisical devices into virtual ones.
> so check this ... is your phisical hda5 really going to correspond to 
> virtual sda1?
> is your hda3 really going to correspond to virtual hda3?
> ... etc
>
> The part that looks weird is that you are saying you have gentoo 
> installed on /dev/hda ... usually I'd expect to see phy:hda1,hda1 
> entry or something like that (unless your gentoo is installed in some 
> strange way - which is possible too)
>
>
>
> Peter van Eck wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've got SusE 10.0 running xen 3 installed on /dev/hdd
> >
> > I've got a gentoo system installed in /dev/hda.
> >
> > What would be the right configuration , the disk part in the config file
> > to boot the gentoo system ?
> >
> > I'm quite confused on that part s all info I can find is based on 
> > creating images ..or is that really the only way...
> > Here 's what I have at the moment but I keep getting a kernel panic 
> > :mount :no such device
> > disk = [ 
> > 'phy:hda5,sda1,w','phy:hda3,hda3,w','phy:hda6,hda6,w','phy:hda7,hda7,w','phy:hda8,hda8,w','phy:hda9,hda9,w','phy:hda10,hda10,w','phy:hda11,hda11,w' 
> > ]
> > Sorry for this probably "obvious" question.
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > Peter
> >
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Well after I started experimenting with Xen I got so confused on the 
virtual device part that I tried several , not in use, special files in 
/dev.
The kernel still panics as soon as it trying to mount the root /filesystem..

As I'm still confused on the virtual devices part would someone careto 
explain to me how I should
interpret this when using partitions ? In my example how do I pick the 
virtual root filesystem for the guest root filesystem I try to boot ?
thanks,

Xen "newbie" Peter

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