Hello, is there a howto where I can boot a livecd iso with xen ? Chitlesh Goorah -- http://clunixchit.blogspot.com
On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 01:32 +0100, Chitlesh GOORAH wrote:> is there a howto where I can boot a livecd iso with xen ?We''re doing good just to be booting Xen some days right now, much less anything like a live CD. Jeremy
> We''re doing good just to be booting Xen some days right now, much less > anything like a live CD. > > JeremySo no one has been able to launch a live cd through xen then? -- http://clunixchit.blogspot.com
Chitlesh GOORAH (chitlesh@fedoraproject.org) said:> > We''re doing good just to be booting Xen some days right now, much less > > anything like a live CD. > > > > Jeremy > > So no one has been able to launch a live cd through xen then?Well, if you exported the ISO as the root block device for Xen, it wouldn''t be booted in the same way the initrd for the CD would boot, so you''d need a slightly tweaked initrd, which you''d have to boot through the normal Xen mechanisms. I suppose there''s booting off of the CD via a VMX guest, but it''s a tad early for that sort of thing. Bill
On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 02:04 +0100, Chitlesh GOORAH wrote:> > We''re doing good just to be booting Xen some days right now, much less > > anything like a live CD. > > So no one has been able to launch a live cd through xen then?You''re not going to generally[1] be able to use existing live CDs with xen -- you have to have a special paravirtualized kernel. Also, there isn''t really support for CDs inside of paravirtualized guests. Jeremy [1] Unless you have VT or SVM hardware
Chitlesh GOORAH wrote:> is there a howto where I can boot a livecd iso with xen ?There is a xendemo CD available with which you can boot Xen from live CD, it includes CentOS, Debian and ?bsd guests as far as I recall. If the question was how to create your own you could look at how Xensource made their xendemo CD.