Re: [Xen-users] Easiest way to install PVM of a different Linux Distro?

[Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you have HVM, you should be able to install an Ubuntu domU using that and 
then convert it to a PV domU.

Alternatively, from RHEL you should be able to compile debootstrap and use 
that to initialise an Ubuntu root filesystem.

Neither of these options "just work" out of the box, you'll need to do a 
little fiddling with the domU's config and with the Xen config file but both 
should lead you to a working Ubuntu domU eventually.

Cheers,
Mark

On Sunday 20 July 2008, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> Rudi Ahlers wrote:
> > Boris Derzhavets wrote:
> >> Ubuntu 8.04 DVD ISO is not xen enabled.
> >> Some other schema  works :-
> >>
> >> http://www.noogies.org/node/7
> >>
> >>
> >> --- On *Fri, 7/18/08, Daniel Kao /<dkao@xxxxxxxxxxxx>/* wrote:
> >>
> >>     From: Daniel Kao <dkao@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>     Subject: [Xen-users] Easiest way to install PVM of a different
> >>     Linux Distro?
> >>     To: "Xen-user List" <xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>     Date: Friday, July 18, 2008, 5:39 PM
> >>
> >>     Hi All,
> >>
> >>     I've been reading up here, out of curiosity,
> >>     (http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/OpenSolarisPVonLinux) on
> >>     running OpenSolaris 2008/05 as a PVM.  I'm currently running
> >>     CentOS 5.2 x64_86 and Xen 3.2.1 on a server and was wondering if I
> >>     wanted to install a PVM instance of say, Ubuntu 8.04 from a DVD
> >>     ISO, (instead of HVM) what would the steps be required to do so?
> >>
> >>     Thanks!
> >>
> >>     --     Daniel Kao
> >>     Übermind, Inc.
> >>     Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
> >>
> >>     _______________________________________________
> >
> > Please don't top post.
> >
> >
> > If Ubuntu 8.04 DVD ISO won't work on XEN, which Ubuntu will then?
>
> Any of them should operate, *in full virftualization mode*. It's
> paravirtualization that takes a fairly customized kernel.


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