Re: [Xen-users] how can you boot an existing linux domU off the cdrom on sles11 dom0?

[James Pifer <jep@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 15:51 -0400, James Pifer wrote:
> I have a sles10 domU running on a sles11 dom0. xen is version 3.4. We're
> trying to pass through a scsi card to the domU. We assign the domU the
> scsi card through virt manager. When we try to boot the domU it won't
> boot. We need to update fstab and menu.lst, but we need to boot with the
> hardware attached to see how it's being seen by the domU. 
> 
> On a physical machine we usually boot off the sles boot cd in rescue
> mode and modify the file accordingly. In this case, I can't get the domU
> to boot from the cd. 
> 
> Any suggestions on how to do this? I've done it with Citrix XenServer,
> but have never been able to do it on a sles dom0. 
> 
> I've tried adding a cdrom and using xm commands to save config, delete
> the domU, modify the config enabling the cdrom as bootable, then
> restoring the domU with xm new -F command, but then it won't boot at
> all. 

Can anyone else provide some assistance here? Really need to be able to
boot off a CD. 

Thanks,
James


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