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Fw: Re: [Xen-users] Installing PV image from CDROM

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Subject: Fw: Re: [Xen-users] Installing PV image from CDROM
From: J Newbie <j_nwb@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 00:04:25 -0800 (PST)
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Thanks Todd, I am forwarding it to the developer list.

Would anyone from the developer list have any comment or ideas/workarounds on 
getting this to work ? 

Also, is there a reasonable standard way of getting/creating the required 
kerenel and ramdisk that would work for most distros.

Thanks
-nb

--- On Sun, 11/30/08, Todd Deshane <deshantm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Todd Deshane <deshantm@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Installing PV image from CDROM
> To: j_nwb@xxxxxxxxx
> Cc: "xen-users" <xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sunday, November 30, 2008, 4:03 PM
> On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 6:35 PM, J Newbie
> <j_nwb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Thanks Todd.
> >
> > Could you please elaborate a bit more about what is
> wrong with CDROM ?
> >
> 
> In vanilla Xen, as far as I know you can't use a CDROM
> directly yet.
> 
> The closest that I have seen is:
> http://xen.markmail.org/search/?q=pv%20grub%20questions#query:pv%20grub%20questions+page:1+mid:cfyspt5vf3nj3thf+state:results
> 
> Open Solaris can install a PV guest from a CD or ISO I
> believe.
> 
> > Also,
> > * I am ready to recreate/update initrd if required.
> > * Any specific changes in Xen ? What version of Xen
> would this work on ? What type of change was made ?
> 
> I believe it is intended to work in the future, especially
> with
> distros like Fedora that, as of the latest Fedora 10, or
> possibly a
> bit earlier, are using Xen guest (domU) enabled kernels as
> the default
> distro kernel.
> 
> > * What xen drivers are available for use with PV VMs ?
> >
> A decent sense of the PV options available can be found at:
> http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenParavirtOps
> 
> >
> > I searched the archive for cdrom parvirtualized, pv
> etc.. but no good hit.
> >
> The one above is one of the best. I forgot to mention about
> the xen-discuss
> list of Solaris Xen.
> 
> You could try to get them to work on the PVGRUB bug(s) to
> get it to work
> or you could settle on using the localhost mirror setup of
> it see:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx/msg02144.html
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> Cheers,
> Todd
> 
> 
> -- 
> Todd Deshane
> http://todddeshane.net
> http://runningxen.com
> 
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