Hi Erick,
Yes, that is only for locally, AoE, iSCSI (if I remember rightly) stored images.
I'm using Xen 4.0.0 + Debian Lenny as Dom0.
The CentOS4 *.img file was created with virt-manager within the Dom0 and stored in the local hard drive, as usual.
Now, I want to store that same *.img file but on an NFS server and boot it from there for later migration, which
is exactly what I want to do.
I have tried mounting the DomU filesystem on the NFS server and then export the directory to the Dom0, but it does not boot.
And it woult not work either for a HVM which is what I would be implementing later.
Do you have any option or idea of how could I do this?
Thank you,
Tony.
Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2011 11:18:12 +0200
From: zod@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: dftonywhite@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] DomU image file on NFS Storage
Hi
I guess I'm missing something important but it is not
disk = [ '
file:/mnt/images/centos/image.img,hda,w']
you want to do? or does it have to be nfs-mounted in the DomU?
/Erik
On 10/08/2011 07:02 AM, Antonio Colin wrote:
Hi everyone,
I have created a CentOS4 PV on a Xen host contained in a
*.img file. Now I want to store that image file
on a NFS server. Does anyone have a config.sxp file example
and want to share it on a pastebin service?
I have put the *.img on an NFS server, then mounted the img
using #mount -o loop image.img /mnt/centos
and then exported it to the xen host but it does not work
since the DomU kernel does not have Root NFS support.
How can I do instead to read directly from the xen host the
*.img file stored in the NFS server, I think it would
look like: nfs_root = "/mnt/images/centos/image.img".
** This does not work at all, it ends up with a kernel
panic on console.
kernel =
"/mnt/images/centos/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-89.ELxenU"
ramdisk =
"/mnt/images/centos/boot/initrd-2.6.9-89.ELxenU.img"
memory = 512
name = "centos4"
vcpus = 1
vif = ['']
dhcp = "dhcp"
ip = "192.168.1.100"
netmask = "255.255.255.0"
gateway = "192.168.1.254"
hostname = "centos4"
nfs_root = "/mnt/images/centos/"
nfs_server = "192.168.1.98"
root = "/dev/root"
on_reboot = 'restart'
on_crash = 'restart'
I would really appreciate one example or config option.
Regards,
Tony.
