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Can anyone please guide here. Thanks -nb --- On Tue, 12/2/08, J Newbie <j_nwb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: J Newbie <j_nwb@xxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Fw: Re: [Xen-users] Installing PV image from CDROM > To: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Cc: "xen-users" <xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Tuesday, December 2, 2008, 12:04 AM > 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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