Hi list, I try to install opensuse 10.2 in a VM over Xen 3.0.4. My method is to declare a cdrom disk as hdb pointing to an iso image and boot the VM which launch the cdrom programm. However, with opensuse, the VM freeze just after having boot on the virtual cdrom. Last message is : ISOLINUX 3.31 0x45688c0e Copyright (C) 1994-2005 H. Peter Anvin Loading... Then the virtual CPU goes to 100% use. and nothing more. I use the same method for installing debian, fedora, windows XP and it works well. I try several iso images of opensuse and all fails at the same point. Does any of you reach to install opensuse in a VM, and do I use a good method? Any idea? Thanks, Jean-Michel. _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Fajar A. Nugraha
2007-Mar-22 09:44 UTC
Re: [Xen-users] Error booting an opensuse iso image
Pompon2 wrote:> Hi list, > > I try to install opensuse 10.2 in a VM over Xen 3.0.4. My method is to > declare a cdrom disk as hdb pointing to an iso image and boot the VM > which launch the cdrom programm. > However, with opensuse, the VM freeze just after having boot on the > virtual cdrom. Last message is : > > ISOLINUX 3.31 0x45688c0e Copyright (C) 1994-2005 H. Peter Anvin > Loading... > > Then the virtual CPU goes to 100% use. and nothing more. >I believe this has been covered several times on this list. Short answer, you can''t. Not if you use Intel. Long answer, you need a boot method that doesn''t display menu or graphics during kernel selection. I did it by creating a bootable USB disk with syslinux and putting install kernel and initrd there. You can then tell it to look for installation media from CD. There are other ways to install OpenSuse though. You could clone your existing system with dd. It should work. Or you could install with with QEMU (that way you''d be using QEMU''s CPU emulation, not Intel''s VT), and use the resulting disk image in Xen later. Regards, Fajar _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
> There are other ways to install OpenSuse though. You could clone your > existing system with dd. It should work. > Or you could install with with QEMU (that way you''d be using QEMU''s CPU > emulation, not Intel''s VT), and use the resulting disk image in Xen later.Another way is the directory installation. Just execute "yast[2] dirinstall", it''s pretty much straight forward. After that you need to create an appropriate fstab file, copy the appropriate /lib/modules directory into your dirinstall and you may want to copy an existing passwd/shadow-filepair to have passwords you can login with. Regards Dominik _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users