Re: using linux as domU. Error: initializing devices...

[Jean-Yves Migeon <jean-yves.migeon%espci.fr@localhost>]

Cem Kayali wrote:
> Quote: It is a must. I don't know of any linux distributions out there 
> that provide "install from scratch" domU kernels.
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> Once you install ubuntu-xen-server packages, it also installs 
> vmlinuz-xenU kernels too...

You need to have an ubuntu installed or accessible first. That's not 
what I would call "from scratch". It is not as simple as pointing to an 
install ramdisk containing all we need to start a domU install.

> Quote: Alas, installing a linux domU is not very practical once dom0 and 
> domU do not come from the same distribution.
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> Well forgive me if this is noob question, but how would we expect that 
> dom0 and domU will be from same source if one of them is netbsd-dom0 and 
> vmlinuz-xenU kernels?

I was just saying that installing a Linux domU was a pain from a NetBSD 
or Solaris dom0, simply because install ramdisks are not easily 
available. I didn't know about the Fedora/RH ones.

My last experiments was a Debian domU with a Nexenta (Solaris), and a 
Fedora domU from a Lenny. Even tools like debootstrap do not help much 
once distributions differ too much. You must rely on ISO mounts and that 
requires quite some extra steps to make it work.

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