gregk.xen@mailforce.net wrote:
Hi Jim,
On Monday, September 19, 2011 2:08 PM, "Jim Fehlig"
wrote: gregk.xen@mailforce.net wrote:
A buddy suggested I should try a different way, using a Centos kernel+ramdisk directly instead of trying to dig for it.
Good suggestion...
mount -o loop CentOS-6.0-x86_64-netinstall.iso /mnt/Centos6 cp -a /mnt/Centos6/isolinux/{vmlinuz,initrd.img} /stor/
Is that a pv or pv-ops capable kernel?
I wouldn't know how to check for certain. I don't know much about Centos6 yet, just that it's supposed to be a clone of RedHat6 minus the commercial support.
I did find this from a Citrix forum
Re: Death of multi-os Virtualization? http://forums.citrix.com/message.jspa?messageID=1456321
The latest Linux kernels, including the RHEL6 kernel, leverage a capability called paravirt_ops -- which means that the kernel is enabled right out of the box to work properly in a paravirtualized Xen environment (as well as other paravirtualization) -- without needing a special "xenified" kernel. One of our SEs has taken it and, with a small number of simple manual steps, gotten it up and running without a special kernel. Red Hat's no longer shipping a Xen hypervisor doesn't affect this at all.
So it looks like the CentOS kernel should be a paravirt_ops (same as pv-ops I think) kernel.
Shouldn't what I'm doing work with that kernel?
Have you considered installing as an hvm guest?
I'm having a hard time finding Opensuse virtualization "DocsForDummies".
I'd consider anything that works right now. If you can help me tweak my config I'll try that.
Config similar to name="blabla" memory=1024 vcpus=4 ... builder="hvm" device_model="/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm" kernel="/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader" boot="d" disk=[ 'file:/var/lib/xen/images/sles11sp1 gmc-hvm/disk0,hda,w', 'file:/path/to/centos6.iso,hdc:cdrom,r', ] ... /etc/xen/examples/ contains quite a few examples for both pv and hvm. But vm-install should help with the installation. Just ensure to check "Full virtualization" for Virtualization Method. Regards, Jim -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-virtual+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-virtual+help@opensuse.org