6:32 p.m.
Hello,
is there a howto where I can boot a livecd iso with xen ?
Chitlesh Goorah
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7:04 p.m.
We're doing good just to be booting Xen some days right now, much
less
anything like a live CD.
Jeremy
So no one has been able to launch a live cd through xen then?
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7:08 p.m.
Chitlesh GOORAH (chitlesh(a)fedoraproject.org) said:
> We're doing good just to be booting Xen some days right now,
much less
> anything like a live CD.
>
> Jeremy
So no one has been able to launch a live cd through xen then?
Well, if you exported the ISO as the root block device for Xen,
it wouldn't be booted in the same way the initrd for the CD
would boot, so you'd need a slightly tweaked initrd, which you'd
have to boot through the normal Xen mechanisms.
I suppose there's booting off of the CD via a VMX guest, but
it's a tad early for that sort of thing.
Bill
7:11 p.m.
On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 02:04 +0100, Chitlesh GOORAH wrote:
> We're doing good just to be booting Xen some days right now,
much less
> anything like a live CD.
So no one has been able to launch a live cd through xen then?
You're not going to generally[1] be able to use existing live CDs with
xen -- you have to have a special paravirtualized kernel. Also, there
isn't really support for CDs inside of paravirtualized guests.
Jeremy
[1] Unless you have VT or SVM hardware
3:12 p.m.
Chitlesh GOORAH wrote:
is there a howto where I can boot a livecd iso with xen ?
There is a xendemo CD available with which you can boot Xen from live
CD, it includes CentOS, Debian and ?bsd guests as far as I recall.
If the question was how to create your own you could look at how
Xensource made their xendemo CD.
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