[Fedora-xen] Re: kernel-xen is dead

[Bill Davidsen]

Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 14:24 -0400, Paul Wouters wrote:
>> On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
>>
>>> 	When this build finishes:
>>>
>>> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=57402
>>>
>>> 	rawhide kernel-PAE.i686 and kernel.x86_64 will contain support for i686
>>> and x86_64 Xen DomU guests.
>>>
>>> 	We've added Obsoletes/Provides, so a simple yum update should work
>>> fine[1].
>>>
>>> 	Today the world has been made a little more sane. Rejoice :-)
>> But not dom0 right?
> 
> Correct; no dom0 support.
> 
>> Is there a doc somewhere to say how to migrate from Xen boots using rootfs
>> (not bootable disk image) to kvm?
> 
> You mean it's a disk image with no partition table and bootloader?
> 
> So, you're booting the guest by specifying a kernel and initrd along
> with the disk image?
> 
> If so, you should be able to do exactly the same with KVM - you'll just
> need to manually create a suitable initrd using whatever method you used
> to create the original initrd for Xen.
> 
> But no, I don't know of any good docs describing how to migrate xen
> guests to KVM ... it'd be very cool if someone could write something up
> on fedoraproject.org/wiki as they go through the process, though ...
> 
There's a tool, I don't have the name handy, but I saw it on either the 
rawhide or FC9-testing update notices. Give me an hour or two to look on 
the machine I use for that stuff and I'll post it.

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