[Fedora-xen] Guests from other distros

[John Summerfield]

Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 23:49:27 +0800
> John Summerfield <debian at herakles.homelinux.org> wrote:
> 
>> Are there any useful docs for me to read?
> 
> Not really, but I've found the best bet is to go ahead and install
> the other distro in its own partitions, set it up to run Xen as a Dom0
> system, make sure that all works, then fiddle with the grub config to
> boot the xen kernel you were running as Dom0 directly, not as a module
> under the hypervisor, and fiddle the "real" fedora dom0 to have a
> config that uses pygrub as a boot loader and maps the virtual disks
> to the same devices as the physical partitions were when you installed
> it. Here's my web page with the story of my various struggles with xen:
> 
> http://home.att.net/~Tom.Horsley/xen-fci.html

Thanks Tom.



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