On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 08:31 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> writes: > > > On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 06:46 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> writes: > >> > >> > On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 09:39 +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote: > >> > > >> >> b) The domU systems should be indistinguishable from normal systems - > >> >> using D-I is one way to ensure this. > >> > > >> > I'm afraid I don't have any helpful suggestions about your current > >> > issues. However I am working on ensuring that Lenny D-I works out of the > >> > box on Xen so things should get better with time. > >> > > >> > Ian. > >> > >> Would it be also possible to provide kvm support? Specifically support > >> for the virtio backend drivers that are way faster. > > > > Certainly it would be possible -- in fact it might already work, but I > > suspect that a patch to partman is probably needed at a minimum. > > > > Ian. > > When I tried it it couldn't find the disks. I assumed the kvm backend > modules aren't included in the ramdisk or too old. > > I guess I have to build my own D-I image with 2.6.25 and see if that > already solves it. I'd guess that it would. > Concerning partman: Does it need patches to recognice /dev/vdX and > /dev/vdXY? Doesn't is use /proc/partitions or /sys/block/? The issue was in the translation of the devices into human readable names. Bug was #464556 and thread is http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2008/04/msg00166.html T The final patch was http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2008/04/msg00852.html I believe you could reuse the templates (that was the intention) but you'd need a small amount of code in partman-base/lib/base.sh Ian. -- Ian Campbell Yow! Am I in Milwaukee?
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