[Fedora-xen] Upgrade FC5 Xen -> FC6

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 12:50:48PM -0500, Russell McOrmond wrote:
> Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> >Then again, some people may like to have a single kernel image in the Dom0
> >whcih they use to  boot all their guest images. If you want to manage your
> >guests that way, simply add the 'kernel=/foo/bar/wizz' parameter to the
> >guest config, and remove the pygrub config option.
> 
> Quick note:  This assumes a statically linked kernel.  You still have to 
> install the matching kernel modules into the guest filesystem, and IMHO 
> the easiest way to do that is to just install the kernel package that 
> contains them.
> 
>   I really believe that for the average setup that pygrub is a great 
> time saver.  I just wish it were finished and had some of the missing 
> features that grub has (IE: ability to on-the-fly edit a config and 
> boot, which avoids having to fiddle with the Xen config in order to go 
> into single user mode.

Urm, you can already do that.

    xm create -c  foo

Will popup the familiar grub menu - select an entry, press 'e' to edit
it, append 'S', and then boot - just as with regular grub.

Dan.
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