Re: [Xen-users] Xen 3.4.2 first steps

["Fajar A. Nugraha" <fajar@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 9:12 PM, Wolfgang Grossbauer <wg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> using ext4-filesystem on openSuSe/64 bit, I wonder if the current
> Xen-3.4.2 supports ext4.

xen doesn't really care about what file system you use. You just need
to make sure your kernel supports it.

> Furthermore, what is the recommended linux-distro and/or version to start
> with Xen?

I'd highly recommend RHEL/Centos5 (comes with Xen 3.1+), with updated
xen rpm from Gitco (if you want newer Xen version).

>
> I compliled Xen-3.4.2 on a openSuse-11.2/32 bit according README,
> compilation w/o errors.
>
> When booting i get the following:

> ls /dev shows no disk, sda or sdb       <<<===
> ~/boot # mkinitrd -k vmlinuz-2.6.18.8-xen -i initrd-2.6.18.8-xen -M

It won't work. Opensuse 11.2's udev needs newer kernel version. When
you use old (2.6.18) kernel, udev won't work, thus you won't see any
disk. Plus xen.org's 2.6.18 kernel doesn't support ext4.

If you go with opensuse, it has xen and kernel-xen packages ready to
install, so you shouldn't have to compile it manually. If for any
reason you want to compile both the hypervisor and kernel manually
anyway, you need to get newer kernel version (see
http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenDom0Kernels)

-- 
Fajar

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