RE: [Xen-users] Getting frustrated with Xen

["Petersson, Mats" <Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx>]

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> [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Petersson, Mats
> Sent: 27 October 2006 17:42
> To: art.fore@xxxxxxxxx; xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [Xen-users] Getting frustrated with Xen
> 
> > There are so many errors on booting I doubt that I can 
> rescue it like
> > you say, especially with the luck I am having lately.
> 
> What kind of errors?
> 
> > 
> > Is there EXACT and correct instructions for installing Xen 
> > 3.03 on Suse
> > 10.1 any where? Every thing I have tried so far has ended up 
> > not working
> > and I have not found anything specifically for Suse except 
> > for 9.3, but
> > that did not work either.
> 
> No, I mentioned SuSE 9.x because that's what I have on one of 
> my non-Xen
> machines in my office - and I just wanted to give the details so that
> you know that it's 9.x rather than 10.x just in case they are 
> different.
> 
> 
> I don't know if I can give you EXACT instructions, but I'll 
> do my best:
> 
> 1. Download a suitable source-code. 3.0.3 tarball is probably 
> as good as
> it gets today. 
> 2. Compile it with "make world" or "make dist" (the latter if you've
> made changes to the Linux config settings). 
> 3. If you're building on the same machine as you're planning 
> to run Xen,
> do "make install" (could be as part of #2 above). 
> If build machine and run-machine are not the same one:
> On build machine: "tar czf dist.tar.gz dist; scp dist.tar.gz
> <run-machine>:/someplace; ssh run-machine" 
> On run machine: "cd /someplace; tar xzf dist.tar.gz; cd dist;
> ./install.sh"

Ah: forgot:
3.5. 'mkinitrd /boot/initrd-xen.gz xen_kernel_version' - you need to
figure out how to tell mkinitrd how to build for a specific version of
kernel, and specify that where it says "xen_kernel_version". As I don't
have SuSE 10.1 on any of my machines, I'm not able to tell you exactly
how to do that... 

> 
> 4. Set up grub.conf (or menu.lst) to contain:
>       kernel /boot/xen.gz
>       module /boot/vmlinuz-xen ro root=<some disk>
>       module /boot/initrd-xen.gz
> 
> That's about it. 
> 
> > 
> > Now you see why I am so frustrated. (Just tried downloading 
> > the boot CD
> > for network install of the Suse 10.1 since it is updated, 
> > even though I
> > have the DVD. I get 1KB /sec on a 8 Mb dsl connection. That 
> > is how back
> > the internet service is here in Taiwan.)
> 
> Why are you trying to download a boot CD when you have the 
> DVD? I doubt
> you'll gain much from that [but yes, I've been trying to do 
> the "wrong"
> thing more than once too!]. 
> 
> --
> Mats
> > 
> > Art
> > 
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