Re: [Xen-users] Cannot open root device

[Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You don't need the Xen kernel in the guest's virtual disk because you specify 
it in the domain config file (the domain builder then gets it from that 
location in dom0's filesystem).

For installing random OSes, take a look at Soffi's selection of guest 
filesystem tarballs at http://www.kvadratrot.net/~xen/

Cheers,
Mark

On Sunday 05 June 2005 09:42, Hsing-Foo Wang wrote:
> Lyndsay Roger wrote:
> > On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 10:19 +0200, Hsing-Foo Wang wrote:
> >>>I use Ubuntu and with partitions I just cp -a /* /mnt/dom1
> >>>to copy the whole thing to another partition, then change a few config
> >>>files and I have the other domains running.
> >>>Depending on the size of your disk you may be able to copy your existing
> >>>system to a file and use that as a guest.
> >>
> >>Without kernel changes?? I thought the guest OS needs be recompiled to
> >>be used under Xen as a guest OS.
> >
> > The guest does not use the kernel from the guest filesystem. It uses the
> > vmlinuz-2.?.??-xenU kernel from dom0 file system but it uses the modules
> > from its own file system so you need to copy
> > the /lib/modules/kernel-version modules that are supplied in the xen
> > binary package or that you complied, to the guest filesystem.
> >
> > Hope I don't confuse things more :-)
>
> Oh yes you did :-)
>
> So for example i want to use Centos 3.4 as a guest OS, how would I go
> about please? Let's say I have 1 Centos 3.4 ISO file.
>
> -HF
>
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