Ian, your solution took all of 2 seconds and it worked perfectly. Thanks a bunch!
> From: Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx
> To: gggfffaaa@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 10:01:38 +0000
> CC: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Xen 2.x images on newer hosts
>
> On Fri, 2012-12-07 at 21:10 +0000, Denis Roy wrote:
> > This has probably been answered before, but for the life of me, I
> > can't find it.
> >
> > I have some older Xen image files, where the image file is simply a
> > filesystem image:
> >
> > /home/server.img: ReiserFS V3.6
> >
> > I noticed newer Xen image files use a complete partition table and
> > PyGrub, which allows images to be moved from server to server.
>
> Newer Xen supports this but it is in no way a requirement, the old way,
> using plain filesystem images and kernel stored in the dom0 filesystem
> also continues to work.
>
> > My server.img does have a /boot/grub directory with menu.lst and
> > everything it needs to boot. How do I get Xen 4.x to boot it?
>
> Pass your disk image as xvda and supply a kernel which support resierfs
> using kernel = "..." and a command line containing root=/dev/xvda and
> this should just work.
>
> Or you can supply your disk image as xvda1 and use root=/dev/xvda1, it's
> mostly up to you.
>
> Ian.
>
>
>
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