Re: [Xen-users] Diskless xen

["Marco Sinhoreli" <msinhore@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm using a targets iscsi to remote virtual machines boot using debian
initramfs-tools. The parameter is passed in virtual machines config
files. You certainly needs change the cmdline size into the kernel to
suport more that 256 characters. See more about in
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=419408

Cheers,

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 9:43 PM, James Harper
<james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I want to implement a diskless xen hypervisor. The way I suppose it
> will
>> work is xen booted over pxe and
>> getting iscsi san storage to store vm images.
>>
>> Is solution like that usable ?
>
> I used AoE via a few custom scripts in Debian's mkinitramfs. It worked
> great for what I wanted. iSCSI is a bit more involved to set up, but as
> long as you can boot Linux over iSCSI, Xen shouldn't add any
> complications.
>
> James
>
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Marco Sinhoreli

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