Re: [Xen-users] Vyatta ISO in DomU

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 08:21:54AM -0500, Dustin Henning wrote:
>       XenServer is not open source Xen, so there won't be direct steps.
>

Actually XenServer was opensourced last week as XCP (Xen Cloud
Platform).

-- Pasi

> First you need to determine whether the ISO has an installer or some sort of
> XenServer vm image.  If it is an installer, then as Fajar suggested, you can
> install it to HVM.  You may then be able to convert it to PV.  If it is a vm
> image, you will have to figure out what kind of image it is and try to pull
> the data off of it and onto whatever type of image(s) or block device(s) you
> want to use.  You will then have to try to fire it up and hope for the best.
> Even in this scenario, HVM might be a better way to start, converting to PV.
> That is, assuming it has its own kernel.  It's really going to be trial and
> error, so it might even be easier to just install Vyatta on an existing PV
> domU and forget about the ISO image.  Good luck with whatever you decide to
> do,
>       Dustin
> 
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> A friend of mine recommended checking out the Vyatta project.  I was
> reviewing their website and saw endorsements of their product running on
> both Vmware and Xen.  In fact, they have a Vmware virtual image and a beta
> XenServer image.
> 
> However, I am running a typical Debian Lenny 64 DomU installed through the
> repositories.  According to their installation documents, it states that
> the ISO can be installed into a DomU as well.  However, they don't provide
> any instructions on how to do this.
> 
> Is someone in the Xen community willing to walk me through the steps to
> install an ISO image onto a DomU?  I have been running Xen for sometime
> including some more advanced topics like PCI pass through for PCI devices.
>  But I haven't done an ISO install before.
> 
> Thanks,
> Tom
> 
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