Install OpenSuse 11 PV DomU at Xen 3.2 Ubuntu Hardy Dom0 via local HTTP Server (all 64-bit)

Posted by dba477 on Oct 22, 2008 9:23 AM EDT
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Attempt to reproduce for OpenSuse 11 procedure worked so smoothly for RH’s PV DomUs , described in previous post, appeared to be a bit more complicated. Pygrub installation profile reading data from HTTP source at Dom0 still worked fine, but Xen 3.2 Ubuntu’s 8.04.1 pygrub failed to read image had been created for OpenSuse 11 PV DomU (/dev/sda11) . Just an ordinary “xm” profile was required to finish configuration and load PV DomU when image was already created on block device, say /dev/sda11. Xenified kernel and ramdisk had to be copied of image device to Dom0 file system. There may be several ways of achieving this goal.

I just selected the easiest for myself. Having already CentOS 5.2 PV DomU up and running attached /dev/sda11 via “xm block-attach” to running DomU as “hdb” , mounted /dev/hdb1 inside DomU and scp’ed suse’s xenified kernel and ramdisk to Dom0. Notice, that virtual frame buffer would work fine for OpenSuse 11 PV at Ubuntu Hardy Dom0 (2.6.24-21-xen).

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