On Mon, 3 Jan 2011 22:11:56 +0100 Michai Ramakers <m.ramakers%gmail.com@localhost> wrote: > Hello, > > > And lastly, is it OK to perform a standard installation of > > Slackware on the second disk, and then compile a vanilla kernel > > with the Xen options enabled? When I reboot into Xen the Slackware > > domU will start as a PV guest? Are there other options in the Linux > > kernel configuration I should enable in order to run Slackware as a > > domU in a NetBSD dom0? > > You could either install a non-Xen Slackware on your second disk, > tweak it (notably /etc/fstab and /etc/inittab to have a getty on the > Xen-console like in Pierre-Philipp's guide), and then make that disk > available as a domU using 'phy:' or 'file:', or install Slackware > using aforementioned guide, period; both work, but IMHO the latter is > the easier method. I have been using Slackware 11.0 using a non-Xen > install, and recently Slackware 13.1 using installer in Xen domU. > > Guidelines for configuring a recent kernel.org kernel as domU are > here: http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Kernel.org_Linux_on_Xen > http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenParavirtOps > I use a 2.6.36.2 kernel with config as in the 1st above URL. Excellent information! I had an inkling this should be possible but I was chasing my tail trying to find out more before posting here. How is video performance in the PV domU by the way? -- Gerard Lally
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