WARNING - OLD ARCHIVES

This is an archived copy of the Xen.org mailing list, which we have preserved to ensure that existing links to archives are not broken. The live archive, which contains the latest emails, can be found at http://lists.xen.org/
   
 
 
Xen 
 
Home Products Support Community News
 
   
 

xen-users

Re: [Xen-users] How to install an HVM linux guest without bootcd?

To: Christian Horn <chorn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] How to install an HVM linux guest without bootcd?
From: Dylan Martin <dmartin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:05:39 -0700
Cc: Goran Vukoman <xen-list@xxxxxxxx>, xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Delivery-date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:03:56 -0700
Envelope-to: www-data@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <20070613173850.GA30643@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
List-help: <mailto:xen-users-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=help>
List-id: Xen user discussion <xen-users.lists.xensource.com>
List-post: <mailto:xen-users@lists.xensource.com>
List-subscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xen-users>, <mailto:xen-users-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=subscribe>
List-unsubscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xen-users>, <mailto:xen-users-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=unsubscribe>
References: <1181733617.7568.3.camel@goofy> <20070613173850.GA30643@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sender: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
User-agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i
Or you could make a running system on bare metal and dd it to whatever
media you're going to run the guest on (LV, loopback, etc...).

Why do want to avoid using a boot cd?  The best solution probably
depends on why you want to do that.

> On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 01:20:17PM +0200, Goran Vukoman wrote:
> > 
> > Has somebody found a way to install an HVM linux guest without a bootcd?
> 
> You could install it with pure qemu which can do pxe-boot as of version
> 0.9, and afterwards start that with xen. 
> 
> 
> Christian
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Xen-users mailing list
> Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users

_______________________________________________
Xen-users mailing list
Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users