On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 9:27 PM, Luca <lucarx76(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
following the fedora-xen instruction, I was able to install XEN and Domain
0 and create an initial ram disk with mkinitrd (which will then mount the
real root filesystem located on an hard drive on the same workstation).
I wonder if what follows, is possible.
On a workstation, I would not install anything. Instead I would use
etherboot, for instance, to download Xen hypervisor, Domain 0 and an initial
ram disk from a server. Everything would be loaded in memory. The initial
ram disk would then mount the real root filesystem, located this time not on
the same workstation, but on a different workstation connected to the
network.
I have tried building by myself an initial ram disk capable of mounting a
real filesystem located on a different workstation but it didn't work. I'm
not a fedora or Xen expert, so I hope someone here could help me.
This claims to be out of date, but maybe it will give you some hints.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/StatelessLinux/NFSRoot
Cheers,
Todd
Of course, I assume the NFS server is working.
Thanks,
Luca
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