Xen users - Apr 2006 - Running Fedora Core 5 on top of SUSE 10.1

Noniko,

I saw your posting titled "SUSE10.1 has a nice Xen package again" and
I was wondering if you had found any documentation on how to run Fedora Core 5
on top of SUSE10.1.   Did you build the Fedora environment on a separate Fedora
machine and then brought it over to the SUSE machine or did you find the Fedora
tools (Yum/Anaconda) on SUSE?

Many thanks in advance.

Jose Betancourt

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Hello Jose,
Sorry for my late reply because of timezone....

I got fedora''s root filesystem from block device.
First, I installed SUSE into /dev/hda1 of partitioned HDD.
Then fedora5 into /dev/hda3 of the same HDD.
It''s just a dual-boot env.

Kernel xenU was a little tricky. yummed kernel-xenU for fedora could be 
used, but no virtual network was given from SUSE''s Xen....
So I built kernel-xenU from source in SUSE env and placed all files 
named "-xenU" created, into SUSE''s /boot.
initrd was copied from gedora(/dev/hda3)''s boot to SUSE''s
/boot.

Then config files:


kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16-xenU"
ramdisk = "/boot/initrd-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5.img"
memory = 256
name = "Fedora"
vif = [ '''' ]
disk = [ ''phy:hda3,hda3,w'' ]
root = "/dev/hda3 ro"
extra = "5"


Saving above as /etc/xen/vm/fedora and at last

xm create -c /etc/xen/vm/fedora

Then it goes! and you could get eth0(not configured at booting, but you 
could configure afterwards).

I believe you could make an image file by copying manually the 
filesystems of the block device.

I''m afraid my explaiation might not be enough. Please ask me about 
anything more if you are interested.

noniko


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Hello,
One thing I have to add.
When you install fedora 5 after SUSE, fedora''s boot loader should not
be
installed or it should be installed into /dev/hda3, because fedora might 
  not find existing SUSE.
Now I am just confirming this booting procedure.

noniko

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