Hi, I was really amazed with the ease of adding FC6 DomUs. However, when I tried other distributions (gentoo, debian, suse) it was pretty much impossible as I am a newbie and the howtos overwhelmed me. Is there any plan to have a standard DomU format (such as the wonderful one FC6 uses) to be used for all DomUs? Right now, it is easy to add FC6 on top of a FC6 Dom0 but if I want NetBSD as a Dom0 and RHEL5 as DomUs I would like a standard DomU adding tool to make that possible. I understand that you cannot make others follow your direction, but maybe you can help me anyway. In short I like the ease of use of adding DomUs in FC6, but I wish FC6 played well with others as a Dom0. And I wish that way of playing well with others was a standard so I could ask the same of other Dom0 making distros and/or ask DomU making distros to package their OSes in a friendly way. Thanks for your time, Vlad
On 2/4/07, Vladimir Giszpenc <vladimir.giszpenc@gmail.com> wrote:> Is there > any plan to have a standard DomU format (such as the wonderful one FC6 > uses) to be used for all DomUs?What do you mean with "standard domU format"? I think the different implementations on different distributions all have their pros and cons - I tested them on Fedora, SuSE, Ubuntu and Debian. Too long to name all differences and pros and cons, but they all have theirs.> Right now, it is easy to add FC6 on > top of a FC6 Dom0 but if I want NetBSD as a Dom0 and RHEL5 as DomUs I > would like a standard DomU adding tool to make that possible.The problem with NetBSD is that the current available NetBSD Kernels have a different PAE setting than the Fedora xen packages. One would need to get a PAE-enabled NETBSD DomU Kernel - don''t know if this is just a simple compile switch and recompile, or if it''s harder to get. I''ve not found the time to ask the netbsd developers for a solution. Apart from that, there is not much of "following Fedoras path" required for the others - basically virt-manager would only be required to use the (when available as PAE) NetBSD Install kernel instead of the Linux Kernel, and after installation switch to the NetBSD runtime kernel. That should be doable. Henning