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Re: [Xen-users] How to boot a DomU from CDrom ?

To: Andrej Radonic <andrej.radonic@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] How to boot a DomU from CDrom ?
From: "Henning Sprang" <henning_sprang@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 21:04:43 +0200 (MEST)
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> interestingly enough - playing around with Suse 10.1 and the yast2 based 
> xen-vm-installer-thingy - I've found out that Yast attempts to do just 
> that: install a brand new domU from e.g. a Suse CD. Not that I got that 
> working but still I wonder if they found a way to achieve this 
> paravirtualisingly. Any comments or experiences, Suse admins?

As I wrote - if you have a cd with the correct kernel, it should work. But I
am not sure if they do it like that.
As far I I saw it when I looked at the other day, it looked like they do
what fedora does:
Fedora 5 also provides a python script which starts the fedora installer in
a domU.

But they both are resource hungry - they both seem to need more than 200 MB
RAM - for an installer! I don't get why an installer needs so much RAM.

Henning

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