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On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 11:04 +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Felix Schwarz wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Hi,</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> I tried to run a SLES 10 installation as (pv) guest in Fedora 7 but the</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> guest does not start.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> I found Gerd Hoffmann's very helpful page</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> <A HREF="http://et.redhat.com/~kraxel/xen/suse-guest.html">http://et.redhat.com/~kraxel/xen/suse-guest.html</A> and tried to</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> incorporate his suggestions regarding the domUloader.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Hmm, looks like the page needs some updating ...</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Some patches by the solaris guys for pygrub made booting sles (and</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">opensuse) easier in xen 3.1 (I think 3.0.4 too). You can simply put</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">these lines into your config file ...</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> kernel=/boot/vmlinux-xen</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> ramdisk=/boot/initrd-xen</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> bootloader=/usr/bin/pygrub</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">... and pygrub will go and pull kernel+ramdisk from the guest disk</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">without looking for a config file on the guest disk. No need for</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">domUloader any more.</FONT>
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I know that SLES10SP1 will run on RHEL5.1beta - I'm running a PV guest.<BR>
I ended up copying the vmlinux-xenpae and initrd-xenpae outside of the guest - on the dom0 filesystem.<BR>
I didn't debug too deeply but using reiserfs was probably by first mistake ,,,,,,,<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">HTH,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> Gerd</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">PS: all IIRC, havn't actually tried that for some time.</FONT>
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