Hello, At the risk of sounding like an idiot, I thought when you installed from CD that the install would be a HVM and not a PV, is that incorrect? Thanks, Jon _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Monday 28 January 2008 04:40:00 pm jonr@destar.net wrote:> At the risk of sounding like an idiot, I thought when you installed > from CD that the install would be a HVM and not a PV, is that incorrect?Actually, the problem is not being able to boot off a cd/dvd, not that you can''t read it. Some distros provide a xen kernel image on the install disk, and virt-manager/Yast, etc. extract that image to /tmp to boot off of, then proceed with the normal install. _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Quoting jim burns <jim_burn@bellsouth.net>:> On Monday 28 January 2008 04:40:00 pm jonr@destar.net wrote: >> At the risk of sounding like an idiot, I thought when you installed >> from CD that the install would be a HVM and not a PV, is that >> incorrect? > > Actually, the problem is not being able to boot off a cd/dvd, not that you > can''t read it. Some distros provide a xen kernel image on the install disk, > and virt-manager/Yast, etc. extract that image to /tmp to boot off of, then > proceed with the normal install. >Thanks for taking the time to respond Jim, but I don''t think I was clear in my question. I have a dom0 already and want to install fedora8, I make a config file for the new domU and in the config file I reference the .iso image of the fedora install dvd. I then ''xm create fedoraConfig'' and it boots off of the .iso referenced in the config file. I go through the install and install all that I want. I then change the config file from boot=''d'' to ''boot=''c'' and reboot the new domU. After it comes up, is it a PV or HVM guest? Jon _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Monday 28 January 2008 08:52:21 pm jonr@destar.net wrote:> I have a dom0 already and want to install fedora8, I make a config > file for the new domU and in the config file I reference the .iso > image of the fedora install dvd. I then ''xm create fedoraConfig'' and > it boots off of the .iso referenced in the config file. I go through > the install and install all that I want. > > I then change the config file from boot=''d'' to ''boot=''c'' and reboot > the new domU. > > After it comes up, is it a PV or HVM guest?If you are indeed booting off the .iso, instead of a kernel/initrd pointed to by kernel/ramdisk=, it is probably an hvm guest. PV guests use kernel/ramdisk= or bootloader= (pygrub,domuloader.py, etc.) in their configs. Hvm guests use builder="hvm" and kernel="/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader" and especially device_model="/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm", since that is the program that actually provides bios services, and sets up traps for emulated instructions. _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users