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Re: Fw: [Xen-users] Jailtime image problem - debian 4.0



Evan Lavelle wrote:
The Centos 5.1 image from jailtime is identical - nothing in /boot, 'vmlinuz-2.6-xen' required on the Dom0. So, clearly jailtime thinks there's something special about 'vmlinuz-2.6-xen', but the website says nothing about it.

After some Googling, it looks like this kernel may be installed in the dom0 /boot by one of the Xen RPMs, or by a download from XenSource. I'll try to give this a go over the w/end.

As always with Xen, it's irritatingly easy when you know how, and next to impossible when you don't.

The jailtime images assume that you've built your system from the Xen sources, but you have to work that out for yourself. 'vmlinuz-2.6-xen' is the standard combined Dom0/DomU kernel produced by the build process, and links to vmlinuz-2.6.18-xen in 3.1. Of course, these files don't exist in Fedora, and the Fedora Dom0 Xen kernel can't be used to boot a guest.

I downloaded the 3.1 binaries from http://xen.org/download/dl_31tarballs.html, and created '/boot/vmlinuz-2.6-xen' as a symlink to 'dist/install/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-xen' in the distribution files. Now, of course, the Debian 4.0 and Centos 5.1 jailtime images boot up immediately, with no config file changes, and no ramdisk line.

Evan

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