Fedora xen - Apr 2006 - trouble with xen domU install script xenguest-install.py

Hi,
I try to use xen on fedora, by going the way the fedora5 xen howto in
the wiki describes.

I installed the packages, xend seems to run fine, the xen ethernet
interfaces seem to be there.

I then run the script /usr/sbin/xenguest-install.py

It seems to take 8-9 hours to complete - is there something I can do to 
make that faster?

I also had major troubles with the install vm not getting a dhcp 
address, but instead of telling me so, after the dhcp condig failed I 
got no error, but the network config screen appeared again and again.

Henning

On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 12:45:00AM +0200, Henning Sprang
wrote:
> Hi,
> I try to use xen on fedora, by going the way the fedora5 xen howto in
> the wiki describes.
> 
> I installed the packages, xend seems to run fine, the xen ethernet
> interfaces seem to be there.
> 
> I then run the script /usr/sbin/xenguest-install.py
> 
> It seems to take 8-9 hours to complete - is there something I can do to 
> make that faster?
  Give more RAM to the guest, 380MBytes intead of the 256MB minimum
speed up thing a lot. Then reduce memory, see the previous posts on this list
about this.

Daniel

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Daniel Veillard wrote:
> [...]
> Give more RAM to the guest, 380MBytes intead of the 256MB minimum
> speed up thing a lot. Then reduce memory, see the previous posts on this
list
> about this.
> 
Hmm, it turned out that using a local mirror somebody made available 
for me made it a lot faster.
Unfortunately this wasn''t possible to see esaily. But one more reason 
was that I didn''t know that I have to be very careful because fc5 trys 
to install a lot of software by default. Even removing all software 
selections I still get a 470MB installation. But that seems to be a 
fedora generic question and has nothing to do with xen.

Henning