Re: [Xen-devel] Hvm Guest Image

[Mats Petersson <mats@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 08:56 17/07/2007, Xen Xen wrote:
> the xen source directory that i downloaded has a ref-linux-2.6.18 directory.
> Is that the unmodified linux that i can use to install a hvm guest??
I don't know if the ref-linux-2.6.18 is suitable to build - it's 
there as a "base" for the modifications for para-virtual Linux that 
you need at least for Dom0.
Well, the general way to use HVM is to install from a CDROM/DVD (or 
ISO-file image instead of a CD/DVD) with a complete distro of Linux 
(RedHat, SuSE, Debian, etc).
Where do you get the rest of your Linux distro from? Doesn't that 
come with a kernel that you can use? That would be my suggestion.
--
Mats


> On 7/17/07, Mats Petersson 
> <<mailto:mats@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>mats@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> At 06:08 17/07/2007, you wrote:
>
> >I downloaded the xen source from the xen site did a make world and
> >make install to get the 2.6.16.33-xen kernel.
> >I made a initrd for the same and booted into it.
> >I want to now set up a hvm guest with the same image( 2.6.16.33-xen)
> >but grub gives me a unsupported executable format error 13?
> >Cant i use the same image for a hvm guest ?
>
>
> For HVM guests, you need an unmodified OS, so you can't use the same
> kernel as with a PV guest. [Unless you load Xen in the guest that is
> - but for most people that adds extra overhead for no extra gain, so
> that's probably not such a good suggestion]
>
> ---
> Mats
>
>
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