Testing Xen. Some quick questions.

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Wed Feb 8 16:06:41 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 14:30 +0900, Naoki wrote:
> > > Is there a simple way to fake a netboot so I can use my existing
> > > kickstart scripts and build OS instances the same way I would with
> > > normal physical hardware?
> > 
> > Realistically, the xenguest-install stuff is pretty much faking netboot.
> > Run it with --help to see the way to pass the various things to it as
> > command line arguments and you can use -x for passing things like ks=
> 
> As we say in my country, "Sweet mate!".  I've tested with current
> rawhide and it's looking good except for the stage2 problem which I
> think has already been covered today.
> 
> Quick note about -l LOCATION, --location=LOCATION :
> 
> "http://host:/path" may be confusing because it will not work with the
> middle ":" unless a port is specified.  Perhaps "http://host:port/path"
> is better?

Or just even http://host/path.  I must have been sleep walking when I
wrote that.  Fixed it up for the next time I build the package

Jeremy




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