Re: [Xen-users] How to boot a DomU from CDrom ?

[Ralf Schenk <rs@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Andrej Radonic schrieb:
>> Generally you are right.
>> I don't know if the cd booting stuff works on non-vmx hardware, if
>> not, you
>> could copy the iso's contents into some partition or vbd file. But you
>> won't
>> get a cd running which has no xen kernel on it. To achieve this, you
>> could
>> make a cd containing a domU kernel matching your dom0.
>>
>> Henning
>>   
> interestingly enough - playing around with Suse 10.1 and the yast2 based
> xen-vm-installer-thingy - I've found out that Yast attempts to do just
> that: install a brand new domU from e.g. a Suse CD. Not that I got that
> working but still I wonder if they found a way to achieve this
> paravirtualisingly. Any comments or experiences, Suse admins?

Yes: What they do is simply running the setup routine that also starts
after booting the cdrom and having done things like hardware detection
etc. They don't "boot" the cdrom but use it as a source for
bootstrapping the SuSE system.

They made it really easy for the user to set up a SuSE System in a DOMU
and I think they had to modify their setup system a little bit for this.

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