[Fedora-xen] Enabling NFS root for Xen guests in FC5

Fraser Campbell fraser at wehave.net
Sat Jan 28 13:46:32 UTC 2006


Stephen C. Tweedie 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.

Interesting, I guess I'll give explicit mounts inside the initrd a try then.

Thanks!




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