RE: [Xen-users] install debian lenny guest

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: kameas@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:kameas@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of ko0nz
> Sent: 01 June 2007 13:38
> To: Petersson, Mats
> Cc: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Xen-users] install debian lenny guest
> 
> hi Mats,
> 
> so how about installing Linux guest(Debian here) in a Ubuntu host,
> without the hvm method?

I've never really done this (since I don't tend to run PV guests, as I
don't do coding for PV in Xen - my job involves HVM (and particularly
SVM) code-development, so I don't do PV other than what little Dom0 work
I've done [none of which has ever ended up in XenSource code, so far -
but sometimes hacking around inside the kernel can help debug
something]). 

There should be plenty of material for how you do this on the web tho'. 

--
Mats
> 
> > >
> > > i'm using ubuntu edge 6.10.
> > > i'd like to test the debian lenny guest with the partition:
> > > /dev/sdb5    /
> > > /dev/sda8    swap
> > > /dev/scd0    cdrom
> > > lenny.iso      /home/iso/lenny.iso
> > >
> > > i succeded running edge-guest, windows-guest, but i can't 
> with debian
> > > here's my config:
> > > 2.6.17-6-generic-xen0
> > > xen-hypervisor-3.0-i386
> > >
> > > and
> > >
> > > kernel = "/boot/xen0-linux-2.6.17-6-generic-xen0"
> > > ramdisk = "/boot/xen0-linux-2.6.17-6-generic-xen0.initrd.img"
> > > builder='linux'
> > > memory = 512
> > > name = "lenny"
> > > vcpus = 1
> > > vif = [ 'bridge=xenbr0' ]
> > > disk = [
> > > 'phy:/dev/sdb5,sdb1,w','phy:/dev/sda8,sdb2,w','file:/home/iso/
> > > lenny.iso,scd0:cdrom,r'
> > > ]
> > > root = "/dev/sdb1 ro"
> > >
> > > sdl=1
> > > vnc=0
> > > vncviewer=0
> > > boot='d'
> > >
> > > after 2mn, i have this error:
> > > Error: Device 2066 (vbd) could not be connected. Hotplug
> > > scripts not working.
> >
> > There's probably more info in "/var/log/xen/xend.log", but 
> I suspect the
> > whole problem is that you're trying to boot a Linux (para-virtual)
> > domain from "cdrom", which isn't supported at all (because the
> > Linux-builder doesn't run a BIOS, which is how the 
> CDROM-boot normally
> > works - instead, it just loads the kernel and initrd into memory and
> > sets the VCPU registers to some values that makes it 
> possible to run the
> > Linux kernel from there).
> >
> > I'm not sure, but I don't think ":cdrom" is a valid addition on a PV
> > domain.
> >
> > [It will probably work if you use a "hvmbuilder" form, e.g
> > kernel="hvmloader" and builder="hvm" instead of the kernel/linux
> > settings that you use now. And you'd have to give "whole 
> disks" to HVM,
> > as it doesn't support partitions. [And it won't make a PV domain, of
> > course - it may be possible to convert it after install, 
> but possibly a
> > messy business].
> >
> > --
> > Mats
> > >
> > > something wrong about the config!
> > >
> > > thank in advance.
> > >
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> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 



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