Re: [Xen-users] Installing Fedora domU from a Debian dom0

[Thomas Bellembois <thomas.bellembois@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Andy,

I tried to install a RHEL4 domU on a debian dom0.
It should be equivalent on FC.
I have tried many solutions without succeeding yet :

- cd installation with Xen HVM (the installation process failed after
partitioning)
- installation on a classic partition, "dd" the partition in a file,
booting with Xen HVM (did not work, but I don't remember why)
- installation using qEmu (the installation worked, I could boot and log
in) - I would like now to be able to paravirtualized this domU, I think
I have to recompile/xenify a RHEL4 kernel... I have not tried with the
debian kernel.
- installation using yum installroot (apt-get install yum and yum
--installroot=/mnt -y install \*). I have built a Yum repository with
my  RHEL4 cd's, installed RH on a LVM partition using yum installroot. I
have not tried  to boot yet. I think I will have to xenify a RH kernel
too as for the solution above.

Hope it helps.

Thomas


Andy Smith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What's the easiest way to install a Fedora 8 domU from a Debian
> dom0?
>
> As far as I am aware, rpmstrap is unmaintained now and stopped being
> able to install Fedora somewhere around FC6?
>
> The procedure I use for Centos is here:
> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Xen/InstallingCentOSDomU
>
> That doesn't work for Fedora though; the initial install kernel
> doesn't seem to want to boot.  I have heard somewhere that this
> kernel can only function as dom0.
>
> The Fedora docs:
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Fedora8VirtQuickStart
>
> only cover using virt-install, virt-manager or something called
> cobbler & koan.  I haven't yet investigated installing any of that
> on Debian (if it is indeed possible) as I would rather not install a
> mass of dependencies just to manage one domU OS.
>
> How does everyone else do it?
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
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