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Thanks Todd, I am forwarding it to the developer list. Would anyone from the developer list have any comment or ideas/workarounds on getting this to work ? Also, is there a reasonable standard way of getting/creating the required kerenel and ramdisk that would work for most distros. Thanks -nb --- On Sun, 11/30/08, Todd Deshane <deshantm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Todd Deshane <deshantm@xxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Installing PV image from CDROM > To: j_nwb@xxxxxxxxx > Cc: "xen-users" <xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Sunday, November 30, 2008, 4:03 PM > On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 6:35 PM, J Newbie > <j_nwb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Thanks Todd. > > > > Could you please elaborate a bit more about what is > wrong with CDROM ? > > > > In vanilla Xen, as far as I know you can't use a CDROM > directly yet. > > The closest that I have seen is: > http://xen.markmail.org/search/?q=pv%20grub%20questions#query:pv%20grub%20questions+page:1+mid:cfyspt5vf3nj3thf+state:results > > Open Solaris can install a PV guest from a CD or ISO I > believe. > > > Also, > > * I am ready to recreate/update initrd if required. > > * Any specific changes in Xen ? What version of Xen > would this work on ? What type of change was made ? > > I believe it is intended to work in the future, especially > with > distros like Fedora that, as of the latest Fedora 10, or > possibly a > bit earlier, are using Xen guest (domU) enabled kernels as > the default > distro kernel. > > > * What xen drivers are available for use with PV VMs ? > > > A decent sense of the PV options available can be found at: > http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenParavirtOps > > > > > I searched the archive for cdrom parvirtualized, pv > etc.. but no good hit. > > > The one above is one of the best. I forgot to mention about > the xen-discuss > list of Solaris Xen. > > You could try to get them to work on the PVGRUB bug(s) to > get it to work > or you could settle on using the localhost mirror setup of > it see: > http://www.mail-archive.com/fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx/msg02144.html > > Hope that helps. > > Cheers, > Todd > > > -- > Todd Deshane > http://todddeshane.net > http://runningxen.com > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-users mailing list > Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
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