Hey guys, I''m trying to try out xen on FC5t3 on x86_64, and have some basic install questions. The FC5 Xen quickstart mentions that I can use xenguest-install.py to install guest domains. That''s cool, but it seems that: 1. it really wants to use file-backed domains. I want to use LVM- backed domains. 2. it requires an install path to something. What is that a path to? These appear to be such basic questions that the documentation or mailing lists don''t answer them...... yet.
> 2. it requires an install path to something. What is that a path to? >The install path should be something like: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/ i386/ Jeremy, you might want to update the wiki or the actual xenguest- install.py install tool to make this easier/more obvious . On Feb 22, 2006, at 10:17 AM, Ben wrote:> Hey guys, I''m trying to try out xen on FC5t3 on x86_64, and have > some basic install questions. The FC5 Xen quickstart mentions that > I can use xenguest-install.py to install guest domains. That''s > cool, but it seems that: > > 1. it really wants to use file-backed domains. I want to use LVM- > backed domains. > 2. it requires an install path to something. What is that a path to? > > These appear to be such basic questions that the documentation or > mailing lists don''t answer them...... yet. > -- > Fedora-xen mailing list > Fedora-xen@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 10:17 -0800, Ben wrote:> 1. it really wants to use file-backed domains. I want to use LVM- > backed domains.It''s a pretty simple change to modify the script to handle block devices for the backend as well. Accepting patches, or I''ll get to it eventually> 2. it requires an install path to something. What is that a path to?The path to your FC5 test3 installation tree Jeremy
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 10:24 -0800, Adam Huda wrote:> Jeremy, you might want to update the wiki or the actual xenguest- > install.py install tool to make this easier/more obvious .Made a slight tweak to the wording of that section of the wiki. Note that if anyone''s interested in working on the docs and making them better (I''m mostly definitely not a docs person :-), that can definitely be set up Jeremy
Hi, On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 10:17 -0800, Ben wrote:> Hey guys, I''m trying to try out xen on FC5t3 on x86_64, and have some > basic install questions. The FC5 Xen quickstart mentions that I can > use xenguest-install.py to install guest domains. That''s cool, but it > seems that: > > 1. it really wants to use file-backed domains. I want to use LVM- > backed domains.There''s no such restriction; does the documentation imply that? I use LVM volumes for my guest domain installs with xenguest-install.py all the time (in fact it is ages since I used a file for the backing store.)> 2. it requires an install path to something. What is that a path to?An http: url to an installable tree, or an nfs:$host:$path specification to the same. Cheers, Stephen
On Feb 22, 2006, at 1:59 PM, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:>> >> 1. it really wants to use file-backed domains. I want to use LVM- >> backed domains. > > There''s no such restriction; does the documentation imply that? I use > LVM volumes for my guest domain installs with xenguest-install.py all > the time (in fact it is ages since I used a file for the backing > store.) >No, the docs don''t imply it at all. But the script itself only seems to have flags for files, and appears to create the xen config file as if my block device was a normal file, not a block device. Then again, I''m new to xen so maybe I''m reading things wrong.
Hi, On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 08:31 -0800, Ben wrote:> No, the docs don''t imply it at all. But the script itself only seems > to have flags for files, and appears to create the xen config file as > if my block device was a normal file, not a block device. Then again, > I''m new to xen so maybe I''m reading things wrong.It should still work OK configured that way; please let us know if you have any problems. It works fine for me! --Stephen
Well, currently I can''t install because of anaconda issues..... but that''s another thread. On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:> Hi, > > On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 08:31 -0800, Ben wrote: > >> No, the docs don''t imply it at all. But the script itself only seems >> to have flags for files, and appears to create the xen config file as >> if my block device was a normal file, not a block device. Then again, >> I''m new to xen so maybe I''m reading things wrong. > > It should still work OK configured that way; please let us know if you > have any problems. It works fine for me! > > --Stephen > > >