[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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