Re: [Xen-users] Image creation with virt-manager---xen configure without pygrub

[Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@xxxxxxxxx>]

David Grundy wrote:
> Hello everyone:
>
> I have looked everywhere and have not come up with an answer to this 
> question so I am hoping someone here may know.  I have been creating 
> images using virt-manager in Scientific Linux 5.  The xen configure 
> file that is created by virt-manager uses the pygrub bootloader.  The 
> problem with this is I would like to boot the images without using 
> pygrub and use a kernel and initrd from outside the image.  I have 
> tried using a few different partition schemes in the image, trying 
> many variations in the /etc/fstab in the image along with variations 
> in the xen configure file and none have been successful.
> As I said these are images that will boot with pygrub but I don't want 
> to use it here.  Any ideas?  Thanks in advance.
> David
You need to have the kernel inside the image, at least for loadable 
modules that aren't in the initrd. You can keep the primary kernel and 
initrd on the Dom0: take a look at the setups at www.jailtime.org for 
setups.
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