Xen users - Aug 2007 - Fedora, SuSE, Gentoo, Slackware as domU

Hi.

I need to use some other distributions other than Debian as a Xen domU.
These distributions are:

- Fedora Core 7
- Opensuse 10.2
- Gentoo 2007.0
- Slackware 11.0
- Ubuntu 6.06.1 Server
- Ubuntu 7.04 Server
- Centos 5.0
- Mandriva 2007

Could you tell me a way to install it as domU, please?
I searched for rpmstrap, but it supports only Fedora Core 4 and Centos 4...

Could you help me, please?

Thank you very much!
Bye.

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shacky ha scritto:
> - Fedora Core 7
> - Opensuse 10.2
> - Gentoo 2007.0
> - Slackware 11.0
> - Ubuntu 6.06.1 Server
> - Ubuntu 7.04 Server
> - Centos 5.0
> - Mandriva 2007
>
> Could you tell me a way to install it as domU, please?
> I searched for rpmstrap, but it supports only Fedora Core 4 and Centos 4...
>   
Ubuntu is supported by debootstrap.
Gentoo can be easily installed using the standard method, as it''s
mostly
done via chroot.
For OpenSUSE I had to recreate the kernel install package using DomU
modules for initrd, but I''ve lost the steps :(

Never had experience for Slack and Mandriva.

You can find pre-packaged images at http://jailtime.org/

Ciao

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> Gentoo can be easily installed using the standard method, as it''s
mostly
> done via chroot.
I''ve never had any experience with Gentoo... :-(
> For OpenSUSE I had to recreate the kernel install package using DomU
> modules for initrd, but I''ve lost the steps :(
How did you do the original installation? I tried to install Opensuse
with the HVM emulation; it installs but it doesn''t pass the reboot
after the file installation... :-(
> Never had experience for Slack and Mandriva.
Haven''t you any idea? In particular I extremely need to install Fedora
Core 7 and Centos 5...
> You can find pre-packaged images at http://jailtime.org/
I know that site, but it doesn''t provide the images for the
distributions I need... :-(
> Lorenzo Milesi - lorenzo.milesi@yetopen.it
Sono italiano anch''io, posso scriverti una e-mail in privato, così
possiamo discutere in italiano? Grazie, ciao! :-)

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On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 07:18:22PM +0200, shacky wrote:
> 
> Haven''t you any idea? In particular I extremely need to install
Fedora
> Core 7 and Centos 5...
Those bring in paravirtualized drivers.

A generic way that should work for most of the distros you need
paravirtualized should be:

- install it in an HVM domU by booting a cd/dvd-iso
- convert the domU into a paravirtualized one. For this maybe the 
distro already brings in such a kernel (fedora7 and centos5 for sure),
or maybe its enough for you to boot the domU up with the kernel from
the dom0.

Christian

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