Dear All: I met a problem of booting a guest domain using a mounted NFS filesystem. My step to exported the filesystem is follows 1: customize the para-linux kernel by make linux-2.6 CONFIG=menuconfig, and rebuild the kernel to support NFS root filesystem. (Here I did not change the config file of xen; do I need to change anything of rebuilding xen hypervisor?) 2: The NFS server exports the guest filesystem image guest.img under /xen following the standard NFS instruction Then on the NFS client side, I first tested mounting the exported filesystem, it succeeded. Then I unmount it. The configuration file os the guest OS is ------------------------------------------------------------ kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.8-xen" extra="xencons=tty" memory = 256 name = "Guest" dhcp = "dhcp" vif = [ '''' ] NETMASK="255.255.255.0" GATEWAY="192.168.1.1" nfs_root = ''/xen'' # directory to the /xen to the NFS server nfs_server = ''192.168.1.136'' # (NFS server IP) root = "/dev/nfs" ------------------------------------------------------------------ The guest OS hangs at ...... ...... mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice md: md driver 0.90.3 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 md: bitmap version 4.39 NET: Registered protocol family 1 NET: Registered protocol family 17 Using IPI No-Shortcut mode XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/console/0 BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found EDD information not available. *Sending DHCP requests ...... timed out! IP-Config: Retrying forever (NFS root)...* It repeats here. Anyone could give me some help. Thanks. in advance. - Hui _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users