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Re: [Xen-devel] xenning gentoo
Eric S. Johansson wrote:
hopefully I will be ready xen up a new gentoo box. since packages
doesn't list anything in terms of ebuilds, I assume I should use the
ebuilds found here?
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70161)
I'll have to look at this. I made my own ebuilds. It's almost
pathetically simple as the Xen team has made it really easy since "make"
puts everything under the "install" directory of the source tree.
anything else I should know about gentoo and xen that hasn't been
discussed already in the mailing list?
I've got a production box up with gentoo as the Dom0 and DomU domains
working just fine. I am even able to script the creation/recycling of
VMs.
Assuming you're using the 2.6 Xen kernel:
Mount the filesystem you're using for the new VM.
Untar the appropriate stage3 file into the new filesystem.
Untar the portage snapshot into the new filesystem.
Copy the appropriate modules into ${VM}/lib/modules. (If you're enabling
modules in the VM.)
Put the correct make.conf, fstab, rc.conf, hostname, dnsdomainname,
resolv.conf and conf.d/net in place under /etc.
I remove /etc/runlevels/boot/consolefont and /etc/runlevels/boot/keymaps
because they just aren't necessary under Xen, and under UML which I had
been using they lock the VM up when they try to run. They may work
under Xen, but it doesn't hurt anything to not have them.
(chroot to the new filesystem for the following steps)
Symlink the right zonefile to /etc/localtime.
Run "rc-update" and add "domainname", "net.eth0" and "sshd" to the
"default" runlevel.
Set the root password.
Unmount and "xm create" and off you go.
When you reboot you'll need to emerge "udev", "sysfsutils" and "hotplug"
then "rc-update add coldplug boot" for it to find all its devices.
Works like a charm.
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