[Fedora-xen] Enabling NFS root for Xen guests in FC5
Stephen C. Tweedie
sct at redhat.com
Thu Jan 26 21:31:36 UTC 2006
Hi,
On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 12:16 -0500, Fraser Campbell wrote:
> CONFIG_IP_PNP and suboptions as well as CONFIG_ROOT_NFS should be
> enabled in Xen guest kernels in order for NFS root to be used in Xen guests.
Yes, the NFS root option is attractive. But in-kernel NFS root has all
sorts of problems. We'd far prefer to have eventual support in the
initrd for NFS mounting, and avoid the kernel issue altogether.
--Stephen
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