I have a Win4Lin 3.0 Terminal Server that, for reasons the developers can''t explain or fix, requires me to use MDK 9.2 (there''s a NumLock issue that occurs in every other distribution I''ve tried, except MDK 9.2). This server is fairly old and needs replacing. I have another Linux server that is much more capable of handling the load of this software, but it''s running Gentoo. What I''d like to do is consolidate these two servers into one--I need (well, want) Gentoo to be the Host OS while having MDK 9.2 as the Guest. I have Xen installed and working on a Gentoo test server but haven''t found any information regarding using a different Host and Guest OS. Also know that Win4Lin TS requires kernel patching in order to work. Is there a way to do this? Pointers to documentation would be great, as well as some suggestions on getting this type of setup to work. Thanks in advance for your help! ~ Tom _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Stephane Bortzmeyer
2006-Jan-31 21:41 UTC
[Xen-users] Re: Using different distro in domain
On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 12:32:56PM -0700, Tom Smith <tom71713-gentoo52478932@yahoo.com> wrote a message of 25 lines which said:> I have Xen installed and working on a Gentoo test server but haven''t > found any information regarding using a different Host and Guest OS.It is underdocumented (most HOWTOs explains how to run an OS with Xen and assume that dom0 and domU use this OS) but it works. I currently run a dom0 Debian which hosts domU running Ubuntu, Gentoo and ttylinux.> Is there a way to do this?You need to find an image of the guest OS somewhere (two very good sources: http://jailtime.org/ and http://www.xen-get.org/) or to build it yourself if you have a machine with the guest OS. In your case, you can simply transfer the existing files to the Xen machines and then to boot the guest. (True, there are some details which I did not mention but, most of the times, it works.) _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users