[Fedora-xen] Running SLES 10 as pv guest in Fedora 7

[Andrew Cathrow]

On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 11:04 +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:

> Felix Schwarz wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I tried to run a SLES 10 installation as (pv) guest in Fedora 7 but the
> > guest does not start.
> 
> > I found Gerd Hoffmann's very helpful page
> > http://et.redhat.com/~kraxel/xen/suse-guest.html and tried to
> > incorporate his suggestions regarding the domUloader.
> 
> Hmm, looks like the page needs some updating ...
> 
> Some patches by the solaris guys for pygrub made booting sles (and
> opensuse) easier in xen 3.1 (I think 3.0.4 too).  You can simply put
> these lines into your config file ...
> 
>    kernel=/boot/vmlinux-xen
>    ramdisk=/boot/initrd-xen
>    bootloader=/usr/bin/pygrub
> 
> ... and pygrub will go and pull kernel+ramdisk from the guest disk
> without looking for a config file on the guest disk.  No need for
> domUloader any more.


I know that SLES10SP1 will run on RHEL5.1beta - I'm running a PV guest.
I ended up copying the vmlinux-xenpae and initrd-xenpae outside of the
guest - on the dom0 filesystem.
I didn't debug too deeply but using reiserfs was probably by first
mistake ,,,,,,,



> 
> HTH,
>   Gerd
> 
> PS: all IIRC, havn't actually tried that for some time.
> 
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