Rob Greene
2008-Apr-26 16:41 UTC
Re: [Xen-users] Need mega basic Xen help (jailtime.org thread)
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 1:06 AM, Michael Jinks <mjinks@uchicago.edu> wrote:> Hi, Rob. > > I''m a confused newbie too but I think I can help with this one...Glad to have some company! :-) This all looks fine to me, but there''s no ''ramdisk'' line, and I bet the> el5 kernel stores its block drivers in its ramdisk (or not; see below). > Alongside wherever you got your kernel, there should be a file named > something like "initrd-[same exact version string].img". Copy it into > the same area where you''re storing your Xen kernel, and add >That''s what I find funny. The VM images I create do not require an external kernal/initrd (except for installation). Why would these images (from jailtime.org) that are built to be used by Xen require them? I should just be able to use pygrub and go from there... -Rob _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Todd Deshane
2008-Apr-26 17:52 UTC
Re: [Xen-users] Need mega basic Xen help (jailtime.org thread)
Hi, On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Rob Greene <robgreene@gmail.com> wrote:> On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 1:06 AM, Michael Jinks <mjinks@uchicago.edu> wrote: > > > Hi, Rob. > > > > I''m a confused newbie too but I think I can help with this one... > > Glad to have some company! :-) > > > This all looks fine to me, but there''s no ''ramdisk'' line, and I bet the > > el5 kernel stores its block drivers in its ramdisk (or not; see below). > > Alongside wherever you got your kernel, there should be a file named > > something like "initrd-[same exact version string].img". Copy it into > > the same area where you''re storing your Xen kernel, and add > > > > > > That''s what I find funny. The VM images I create do not require an external > kernal/initrd (except for installation). Why would these images (from > jailtime.org) that are built to be used by Xen require them? I should just > be able to use pygrub and go from there... >I agree the the jailtime.org images would be nice as ready to be used with pygrub, but that would required putting a working, compatible kernel within the image. This is possible, but sometimes tricky. You should contact the jailtime.org admin, he is usually pretty good about trying to add images and features. There is at least one alternative that I am familiar with, rpath.com has quite a few prebuilt images, some of which are designed to work with pygrub out of the box. We covered how to do this in our book, but (if you can''t or don''t want to buy the book) we have also provided a fair number of resources on our website for the book as well. For some ideas and other places to get prebuilt images See: http://runningxen.com/chapters/chapter5/ Cheers, Todd _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users