On 14/10/12 19:26, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Bengt Thuree] >> Hmm.. This will make it a tad difficult... > Yes. But not impossible, just a bit hard to get right. :) Yes, I understand that, and something I will keep in mind to dig into, if booting from CD is not working. > >> XEN is the virtualization system I am using, and unfortunately, so far >> I have been unable to get it to install from the CD. It would be >> easier if the CD was prepared for XEN (as the normal Squeeze CD is, it >> has special vmlinuz and initrd.gz for xen and netboot). At least that >> could be something to think of for the future. > What about installing using the CD in for example kvm or virtualbox, and > then migrate the resulting disk image to xen? It would be easier, as > you could install the Xen kernel files into the disk image in virtualbox > before you migrate. This is also on my agenda to test, since I have it sort of working in KVM. Just need to get the interfaces to work :) Did not bother with them, just wanted to get something up to see how it looked. > > Btw, according to > <URL: http://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=3156432 > it should be > possible to boot Xen fully virtualized (instead of paravirtualized) from > a install CD. Did you try this? Thanks :) I found a similar one earlier, which I could not make working. Now I think I understand why though, since this instruction was a bit clearer on the boot parameter. Will try it in 1-2 weeks (since I am currently out of town) Bengt
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