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Re: [Xen-users] Problems running Debian as Guest System on SLES10 Dom0

To: Jonathan Ervine <jervine@xxxxxxxxxx>, xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Problems running Debian as Guest System on SLES10 Dom0
From: jd <jdsw2002@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:11:53 -0800 (PST)
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SLES10 SP1 does NOT have pygrub.

/Jd

--- Jonathan Ervine <jervine@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wednesday 30 January 2008 10:05:59 Jonathan
> Ervine wrote:
> > On Wednesday 30 January 2008 00:21:09 Todd Deshane
> wrote:
> > > its quite funny because sles 10 does not have
> any pygrub, the only
> > > way
> > >
> > > > to create vms is the domUloader.
> > > > yesterday I tried had some idea but i dont
> know if this is a good
> > > > or a worse idea maybe you can give my some
> feedback.
> > >
> > > Why doesn't sles 10 have pygrub? pygrub comes
> with Xen.
> >
> > SLES seems to use domUloader instead of pygrub.
> I'm not the person to
> > ask as to why this is the case, though I believe
> it was done to
> > support booting operating systems that don't use
> grub as a
> > bootloader. Using domUloader requires the kernel
> and ramdisk to be
> > booted to be specified in the config file though.
> It did look like
> > the original poster had done this correctly via
> bootargs. I'll need
> > to check that the syntax used is correct, and I
> can only do this
> > tonight when I can fire up my Xen system. The
> kernel and ramdisk do
> > not necessarily have to be within the DomU
> filesystem - they can
> > reside on the Dom0 filesystem.
> 
> OK - checked this last night. There is pygrub in
> SUSE Linux, and 
> domUloader is used instead which requires the kernel
> and initrd to be 
> specified in the config. This can be on the Dom0
> filesystem or in the 
> DomU disk image and their location(s) are specified
> using the bootargs 
> parameter or explicitly in the config file e.g.
> kernel=
> 
> Going back to the original query, it should be
> possible to boot via a 
> Debian kernel, so long as it is Xen enabled and, in
> my experience, 
> isn't a PAE kernel trying to boot on a non-PAE Xen
> kernel.
> 
> Jon
> 
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