Hi Martin,
Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately I have an older Xeon system that
won''t allow me to do Full Virt.
I used Qemu to install Feisty, but Qemu creates partitions within the
disk image file, as if it were an entire disk. As I understand Xen,
this is not a format that Xen can read directly; what I want is for Qemu
to write to a LVM volume.
Can you describe for me the steps you use for installing non-Red Hat
distros? Any tips for getting Feisty installed? Thanks in advance!
Paul
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> As PV guests require xen-enabled kernels, I''d suggest the best
method
> for you to follow would be to install Feisty either as a HVM guest or
> using Qemu. You could then download a xen enabled kernel/initrd (
> either store these in dom0 somewhere or use pygrub if you want to keep
> them inside the guest; I tend to prefer storing them in dom0.
Don''t
> forget to copy the modules into the guest''s file system if
neccessary),
> and create a new configuration to use that disk image in a PV guest with
> the xen-ified kernel you downloaded (you could probably get away with
> using the same kernel as you do in dom0, as long as its not only a dom0
> kernel (I think the kernel in the 3.1 binary can do both dom0 and domU))
>
> I find that virt-manager/virt-install work well for installing Fedora
> and RHEL based distros, but I think it relies on having an appropriate
> initrd that launches the install scripts, so if the distro in question
> doesn''t provide this (in a location Xen knows about), it
won''t work.
> I''ve come across the same issue before, fortunately its fairly
easy to
> get round.
>
> Mart
>
> Paul Waldo wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I have a CentOS5 host and I''m trying to install Kubuntu Feisty
as a
>> paravirtualized guest. I tried using virt-manager and mounting the
>> Feisty DVD via NFS. Unfortunately, I got the error
>> "Invalid NFS location given: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
>> ''/var/lib/xen/xennfs.Pu9bAv/xen/vmlinuz''"
>> My understanding is that virt-manager is looking for a Xen kernel at
the
>> install location in directory /xen.
>> So, is there any way to install a non-xen-enabled distro as a
>> paravirtualized guest? Thanks for any help!
>>
>> Paul
>>
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