On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 03:09:18PM +0000, Adrian Revill wrote:
Hi
Has anyone had any luck using iSCSI as the root device for a DomU.
Is it possible to specify the target address in the virt-manager
directly? as i have seen comments on google that it has to be mounted on
Dom0 first. Which kinda defeats the object of virtual storage for
virtual machines.
No you can't specify anything wrt to iSCSI in virt-manager. We only
support creating guests which boot from a locally attached storage
device - since pygrub has to access the disk in dom0 to etract the
boot kernel & initrd. If you want to use iSCSI, then you'll need to
create a diskless guest, and keep its kernel/initrd in dom0 rather
than using pygrub. None of the tools are able to help with such a
setup though, so its a mnual process.
If i was doing a straight FC6 install i could select an iSCSI target
as
the target drive.
Basically create yourself a guest config in /etc/xen, and have it
explicitly boot the kernel/init you pull from $INSTALL_URL/images/xen
to get started. Then after install copy the newer kernel / initrd back
to Dom0
Dan.
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