[Fedora-xen] xen-tools and debian on Fedora

[Jan de Haan]

Hi Frederick,

   it depends a bit on wether you run a PVM or a HVM, but in latter case I
got very good results with booting from the mini.iso:
http://<repo>/debian/dists/etch/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/mini.iso

my domain.cfg:

kernel = "/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader"
builder='hvm'
device_model = '/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm'
memory = 512
name = "vm1"
vcpus=1
pae=0
acpi=0
apic=0
cpus = ""
vif = [ 'type=ioemu, mac=aa:00:bb:cc:00:d4, bridge=192.168.1.2' ]
disk = [ 'file:/var/lib/xen/vm1-hda.img,ioemu:hda,w',
'file:/var/lib/xen/debian-4.0r1-installer-gtk-netboot-mini.iso,hdc:cdrom,r'
]
on_poweroff = 'destroy'
on_reboot   = 'destroy'
on_crash    = 'destroy'
boot='d'
sdl=0
vnc=1
vncviewer=0
stdvga=0
serial='pty'
ne2000=0
usb=1
usbdevice='tablet'


Sincerely,

Jan.

On Jan 13, 2008 9:57 AM, Frederick N. Brier <fbrier at multideck.com> wrote:

> I am trying to create a DomU Debian guest VM.  I tried a Debian-Etch
> DomU from jailtime.org.  Lots of my own issues, discovering other people
> having the same exact problems, but no solutions.  So I installed
> debootstrap and xen-tools and tried that.  Again like many other people
> I ran into the "VFS: Cannot open root device "hda1" or
> unknown-block(0,0)" issue.  I have not figured out why the cfg file is
> not being generated in /etc/xen, but I have gotten it to generate images
> using the file image and LVM (creating the Logical Volumes).  I just
> hand coded the cfg file.  After they were generated, I mounted both
> images and noticed that neither had hda1 or hda2 device files in /dev.
> That would seem to be a problem.  Please help!  A link to tutorial or
> answer would be fabulous.  The only thing I have not tried yet is using
> pygrub and bundling the kernel and .img files with the guest and not
> using the fc8xen kernel and images in the Dom0's boot folder.  Thank you
> for any help.
>
> Fred
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