[Fedora-xen] installing FC7 under Debian Etch

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 11:48:28AM +1000, Amos Shapira wrote:
> On 17/10/2007, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Does this mean I have to get hold of a different kernel for FC7 which is
> > > paravirtualized?
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> > > Can you help me find such a kernel or do I have to compile one myself?
> > > Is this the "kernel-xen" package or is kernel-xen intended to be used
> > for
> > > Dom0 (i.e. when fc7 is the host, not the guest)?
> >
> > For the purposes of installing a brand new paravirt guest use the kernel
> > and initrd files from the directory   '$TREE/images/xen/', where $TREE is
> > the mounted CDROM image, or Fedora HTTP download site.  Once installation
> > is complete, remove the kernel & ramdisk from the guest config and add
> > bootloader="/usr/bin/pygrub"
> 
> 
> OK, I got the files from
> http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/x86_64/os/images/xen/
> and put them both under /boot of the host (Debian) and the guest (FC7) and
> used the following config file:
> 
> kernel = '/boot/fc7-xen-vmlinuz'
> ramdisk = '/boot/fc7-xen-initrd.img'
> memory = 256
> name = 'fc7-01'
> root = '/dev/hda1 ro'
> vif = ['type=ioemu, bridge=xenbr0']
> disk = ['phy:/dev/xen/fc7-01,ioemu:hda,w']
> cdrom = 'file://root/iso/fc7/i386/boot.iso'
> device_model='/usr/lib/xen-3.0.3-1/bin/qemu-dm'
> boot='d'
> sdl='1'

Change this to   'sdl=0'  and add 'vnc=1'.  This will make Xen start a
VNC server in the Dom0 host to which you can connect & view the guest
installer.

Dan.
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