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Re: d-i support for running in a Xen guest domain



On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 13:37 +0100, Bastian Blank wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 09:58:45PM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > I'm interested in getting d-i to work seamlessly inside a Xen guest
> > domain using the paravirt_ops kernel support for Xen in 2.6.24+
> > (currently only available in the kernel svn trunk snapshots builds I
> > think).
> 
> 2.6.23 already have the same amount of support than .24.

That's true. I'm not sure why I thought otherwise.

> > It would be reasonably easy to create -xen-686 udebs (in fact I did for
> > my testing) and tweak d-i to select a -xen kernel package image as
> > appropriate during install, however I think I have a better idea ;-)...
> 
> The explicit Xen images will disappear in the future, it just lacks
> infrastructure.

By infrastructure do you mean meta-packages to facilitate upgrade or
something else?

Ian.
-- 
Ian Campbell

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the
hour of separation.
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