Re: xen on wheezy
----- Original Message -----
> From: "craig@gtek.biz" <craig@gtek.biz>
> To: Patrick Bartek <bartek047@yahoo.com>
> Cc: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2012 7:11 AM
> Subject: Re: xen on wheezy
>
> On Thursday, December 27, 2012 19:55, "Patrick Bartek"
> <bartek047@yahoo.com> said:
>
>>>> I would restart at the beginning:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.xen.org/support/documentation.html
>>>>
>>>> http://wiki.debian.org/Xen>
>>>
>>> Well I've been through those, and several other pages. The only
> real
>>> difference is I'm using Lilo instead of Grub. I found Grub far too
> poorly
>>> documented to be useful many years ago (one of the reasons I gave up on
> Red Hat
>>> and went to Debian), and it doesn't look like it's gotten much
> better
>>> (22 man pages!?). I figured a boot loader is a boot loader?
>>
>>
>> I think your problem is something other than just the bootloader.
> That's why
>> I suggested starting over at the beginning. I think you missed installing
>> something or mis-installed something. Check the hardware compatibility
>> section of the Debian wiki, too.
>>
>> As far as help with lilo: It's been so long since I worked with it (8
>> years?) I'd have to learn it all over. But in the Xen home link, under
>> Beginner's docs--right side of page, in the sidebar--it gives you
> generic
>> step-by-step instructions, plus, IIRC, a bootloader config file example.
>> Maybe, that will help some. At least, give you an idea of what the
>> stanza is suppose to look like.
>
> Well I've got a fresh set of eyes this morning, and you are most likely
> right
> that I've missed something. I will go back through and see what I can come
> up with. Thanks for the pointers.
Here's the link to the step-by-steps I referred to:
http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_Beginners_Guide
I did note one thing with these instructions: They're intended for a 64-bit CPU with hardware virtualization capabilities, which might cause problems since your test system is Athlon XP based. I don't know. I've never tried installing Xen on a system that old either when it was newish or recently. Although, I did using qemu and kqemu, which worked quite well.
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