Re: [Xen-users] Dom0 on a NFSRoot Environment

[goodb0fh <goodb0fh@xxxxxxxxx>]

/boot would be my first guess

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On Aug 6, 2011, at 9:59 AM, Thiago Vinhas <thiago@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm using Xen for a few years, on diskless Intel servers. These servers boot 
> using PXE to an iSCSI remote disk, and works just fine.
> 
> Now I'm trying to do the same, but instead of using iscsi, I would like to 
> use the server booting in a NFS root.
> 
> The problem is that, after I boot the server and start Xen, when I try to 
> start a VM, it takes fron 60 to 180 seconds to start the boot process. I 
> tried using CentOS 5.6, CentOS 6.0 and SLES11, all with Xen 4.1.1, and it 
> happens in all of them.
> 
> I'm guessing Xen consumes a lot of I/O when trying to start a VM, and NFS 
> maybe is a bottleneck for this. If that's the case, I could mount the 
> specific partition in iSCSI, but I have no idea what partition it should be.
> 
> Does anybody have a light on this?
> 
> Thanks a lot!
> Thiago
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