RE: [Xen-users] Getting frustrated with Xen

["Petersson, Mats" <Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx>]

> There are so many errors on booting I doubt that I can rescue it like
> you say, especially with the luck I am having lately.

What kind of errors?

> 
> Is there EXACT and correct instructions for installing Xen 
> 3.03 on Suse
> 10.1 any where? Every thing I have tried so far has ended up 
> not working
> and I have not found anything specifically for Suse except 
> for 9.3, but
> that did not work either.

No, I mentioned SuSE 9.x because that's what I have on one of my non-Xen
machines in my office - and I just wanted to give the details so that
you know that it's 9.x rather than 10.x just in case they are different.


I don't know if I can give you EXACT instructions, but I'll do my best:

1. Download a suitable source-code. 3.0.3 tarball is probably as good as
it gets today. 
2. Compile it with "make world" or "make dist" (the latter if you've
made changes to the Linux config settings). 
3. If you're building on the same machine as you're planning to run Xen,
do "make install" (could be as part of #2 above). 
If build machine and run-machine are not the same one:
On build machine: "tar czf dist.tar.gz dist; scp dist.tar.gz
<run-machine>:/someplace; ssh run-machine" 
On run machine: "cd /someplace; tar xzf dist.tar.gz; cd dist;
./install.sh"

4. Set up grub.conf (or menu.lst) to contain:
        kernel /boot/xen.gz
        module /boot/vmlinuz-xen ro root=<some disk>
        module /boot/initrd-xen.gz

That's about it. 

> 
> Now you see why I am so frustrated. (Just tried downloading 
> the boot CD
> for network install of the Suse 10.1 since it is updated, 
> even though I
> have the DVD. I get 1KB /sec on a 8 Mb dsl connection. That 
> is how back
> the internet service is here in Taiwan.)

Why are you trying to download a boot CD when you have the DVD? I doubt
you'll gain much from that [but yes, I've been trying to do the "wrong"
thing more than once too!]. 

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