[Xen-devel] iSCSI root

[James Harper <JamesH@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As promised, here's what I did to get iSCSI root running under XenU under Debian 3.1 (Sarge):

 

Be running linux 2.6 under XenU.

Build XenU with SCSI disk support (I did them as modules)

Get linux-iscsi 4.0.1.8 from http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-iscsi/

Build it according to the instructions there (i found it a bit tricky) and install under your XenU

Get iscsi-init 4.0.1 from http://sourceforge.net/projects/iscsi-init/

Built it according to the instructions there (much easier).

Make sure the modules from linux-iscsi and iscsi-init are in /lib/modules/... for XenU.

Copy the attached script 'iscsi-init' to /etc/mkinitrd/scripts in XenU.

mkinitrd as normal.

 

Add the appropriate bits to your kernel command line for XenU as per the README in iscsi-init.

 

Reboot and enjoy. Sorry if it's a bit vague, i can fill in any details if anyone is interested.

 

I'm just now trying to get RAID1 working over iscsi so I get high availability, but mkinitrd starts raid before the iscsi script runs so I need to re-jig it a bit.

 

James

 

 

 

 

 

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