Re: [Xen-users] Xen on RHEL 5.1 to para-virt Ubuntu Gusty

[Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>   I'm looking for any information (tutorial / howto) to run Ubuntu (Gutsy)
> on a RHEL 5.1 XEN (2.6.18-53.1.4.el5xen)
>   I tried to install the para-virt Ubuntu from a remote mounted cd-rom
> available by HTTP like I did to install a paravirtualized RHEL 5.1
> inside the RHEL Xen ;)

Well, there are various ways you can tackle this.

I typically use an HVM install (full virtualisation) of Ubuntu onto RHEL 
initially, since this is convenient and well supported by the virt-manager 
tool.  I then convert this into a paravirtualised install if I want at a 
later date.  This is an approach I quite like.

Or, there's a tool called "debootstrap" that will create a basic debian (or 
ubuntu) filesystem in a directory.  You can put this onto a virtual disk by 
simply mounting the filesystem on that disk into dom0 (e.g. using the lomount 
utility from qemu, which is supplied with Xen) and then running debootstap 
against that directory.

You ought to be able to chroot into that filesystem subsequently and use 
apt-get to install a Xen-aware domU kernel and initrd.  When you're done with 
editing the filesystem in dom0, umount it so that the guest can use it 
safely.

Finally in dom0 you can create a config file to boot that virtual disk and use 
pygrub to find and load the kernel from the guest's filesystem.

Hopefully one of those methods will suit you!  Let us know if you need more 
help.

Cheers,
Mark

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