Re: [Xen-users] Diskless xen

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 10:09:11PM -0300, Marco Sinhoreli wrote:
> I'm using a targets iscsi to remote virtual machines boot using debian
> initramfs-tools. The parameter is passed in virtual machines config
> files. You certainly needs change the cmdline size into the kernel to
> suport more that 256 characters. See more about in
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=419408
> 

Dunno if anyone has implemented iBFT support into Xen yet, but I think that 
would
help with iscsi root setups.. 

Vanilla/upstream Linux kernel now has iBFT support, and there are
scripts for parsing information in iBFT table and configuring open-iscsi
accordingly (in initrd) for root volume.. 

RHEL 5.2 kernel and (mk)initrd supports iBFT already. 

-- Pasi

> Cheers,
> 
> On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 9:43 PM, James Harper
> <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I want to implement a diskless xen hypervisor. The way I suppose it
> > will
> >> work is xen booted over pxe and
> >> getting iscsi san storage to store vm images.
> >>
> >> Is solution like that usable ?
> >
> > I used AoE via a few custom scripts in Debian's mkinitramfs. It worked
> > great for what I wanted. iSCSI is a bit more involved to set up, but as
> > long as you can boot Linux over iSCSI, Xen shouldn't add any
> > complications.
> >
> > James
> >
> >
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> 
> 
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> Marco Sinhoreli
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