Fedora xen - Jan 2006 - Enabling NFS root for Xen guests in FC5

Hi,

CONFIG_IP_PNP and suboptions as well as CONFIG_ROOT_NFS should be 
enabled in Xen guest kernels in order for NFS root to be used in Xen guests.

At least kernel-xen-guest-2.6.15-1.29_FC5 and 
kernel-xen-guest-2.6.14-1.21_FC5 do not have these options enabled. 
I''m
hoping these options can be enabled in future builds or were they 
intentionally turned off for a reason?

Thanks,
Fraser

Hi,

On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 12:16 -0500, Fraser Campbell wrote:
> CONFIG_IP_PNP and suboptions as well as CONFIG_ROOT_NFS should be 
> enabled in Xen guest kernels in order for NFS root to be used in Xen
guests.
Yes, the NFS root option is attractive.  But in-kernel NFS root has all
sorts of problems.  We''d far prefer to have eventual support in the
initrd for NFS mounting, and avoid the kernel issue altogether.

--Stephen

Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
>>CONFIG_IP_PNP and suboptions as well as CONFIG_ROOT_NFS should be 
>>enabled in Xen guest kernels in order for NFS root to be used in Xen
guests.
> 
> 
> Yes, the NFS root option is attractive.  But in-kernel NFS root has all
> sorts of problems.  We''d far prefer to have eventual support in
the
> initrd for NFS mounting, and avoid the kernel issue altogether.
Interesting, I guess I''ll give explicit mounts inside the initrd a try
then.

Thanks!