Re: Re: [Xen-users] Where to start.

[Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 5 April 2010 06:57, Fajar A. Nugraha <fajar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Windows arrived this moring. Now installing.
>> Only disappointment, I have a spare disk set up for it,
>> I wasn't given the choice of 'which' disk to install
>> the OS.
>>
>> Is that needed in the config file before I start to install please?
>
> I assume you installed it under Xen?

No, the disk isn't mounted on my Linux
Do you mean the mount point should be in the same directory
as the Xen installation? If so, which part?

 Your previous post contains
> references to vmware, I'm not sure which system you installed it on.
On my Fedora core 12

> How do you install it? using virt-manager? editing config files
> manually?

No, just ran the yum command
# yum install xen


>
> if you edit config file, there's a section called "disk". For example,
> in my setup I use this
>
> disk =  [
>        'phy:/dev/rootvg/win01lv,hda,w',
>        ]
>
> I use LVM as domU/guest backing storage. If you have a spare drive
> (e.g. sdb) and want to use it ONLY for Windows guest, you could use
> something like
>
> disk =  [
>        'phy:/dev/sdb,hda,w',
>        ]

which maps my Linux /dev/sdb to the windows hda. OK, makes sense, thanks.

>
> or, since you already use Vmware, you can just store domU's disk
> images as files (similar to vmware). Format the spare disk and mount
> it as /var/lib/xen/images (or whatever path you like, as long as you
> also make sure that things like selinux and permissions match), and
> use something like this on domU config file
>
> disk =  [
>        'tap:aio:/var/lib/xen/images/win01.img,hda,w',
>        ]

Useful. Thanks.


>
> if you use virt-manager it asks you where you want to put domU's disk image.

(Sorry, don't know what that is - very new to virtualization).


Thanks for the info Fajar.

Lots of googling, I now have vmware player up and running.

regards




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