12:17 p.m.
Hey guys, I'm trying to try out xen on FC5t3 on x86_64, and have some
basic install questions. The FC5 Xen quickstart mentions that I can
use xenguest-install.py to install guest domains. That's cool, but it
seems that:
1. it really wants to use file-backed domains. I want to use LVM-
backed domains.
2. it requires an install path to something. What is that a path to?
These appear to be such basic questions that the documentation or
mailing lists don't answer them...... yet.
12:24 p.m.
2. it requires an install path to something. What is that a path to?
The install path should be something like:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/
i386/
Jeremy, you might want to update the wiki or the actual xenguest-
install.py install tool to make this easier/more obvious .
On Feb 22, 2006, at 10:17 AM, Ben wrote:
> Hey guys, I'm trying to try out xen on FC5t3 on x86_64, and have
> some basic install questions. The FC5 Xen quickstart mentions that
> I can use xenguest-install.py to install guest domains. That's
> cool, but it seems that:
>
> 1. it really wants to use file-backed domains. I want to use LVM-
> backed domains.
2. it requires an install path to something. What is that a path to?
> These appear to be such basic questions that the documentation or
> mailing lists don't answer them...... yet.
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1:13 p.m.
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 10:24 -0800, Adam Huda wrote:
Jeremy, you might want to update the wiki or the actual xenguest-
install.py install tool to make this easier/more obvious .
Made a slight tweak to the wording of that section of the wiki. Note
that if anyone's interested in working on the docs and making them
better (I'm mostly definitely not a docs person :-), that can definitely
be set up
Jeremy
12:28 p.m.
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 10:17 -0800, Ben wrote:
1. it really wants to use file-backed domains. I want to use LVM-
backed domains.
It's a pretty simple change to modify the script to handle block devices
for the backend as well. Accepting patches, or I'll get to it
eventually
2. it requires an install path to something. What is that a path to?
The path to your FC5 test3 installation tree
Jeremy
3:59 p.m.
Hi,
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 10:17 -0800, Ben wrote:
Hey guys, I'm trying to try out xen on FC5t3 on x86_64, and have
some
basic install questions. The FC5 Xen quickstart mentions that I can
use xenguest-install.py to install guest domains. That's cool, but it
seems that:
1. it really wants to use file-backed domains. I want to use LVM-
backed domains.
There's no such restriction; does the documentation imply that? I use
LVM volumes for my guest domain installs with xenguest-install.py all
the time (in fact it is ages since I used a file for the backing store.)
2. it requires an install path to something. What is that a path to?
An http: url to an installable tree, or an nfs:$host:$path specification
to the same.
Cheers,
Stephen
10:31 a.m.
On Feb 22, 2006, at 1:59 PM, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
>
> 1. it really wants to use file-backed domains. I want to use LVM-
> backed domains.
There's no such restriction; does the documentation imply that? I use
LVM volumes for my guest domain installs with xenguest-install.py all
the time (in fact it is ages since I used a file for the backing
store.)
No, the docs don't imply it at all. But the script itself only seems
to have flags for files, and appears to create the xen config file as
if my block device was a normal file, not a block device. Then again,
I'm new to xen so maybe I'm reading things wrong.
11:57 a.m.
Hi,
On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 08:31 -0800, Ben wrote:
No, the docs don't imply it at all. But the script itself only
seems
to have flags for files, and appears to create the xen config file as
if my block device was a normal file, not a block device. Then again,
I'm new to xen so maybe I'm reading things wrong.
It should still work OK configured that way; please let us know if you
have any problems. It works fine for me!
--Stephen
12:01 p.m.
Well, currently I can't install because of anaconda issues..... but that's
another thread.
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
Hi,
On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 08:31 -0800, Ben wrote:
> No, the docs don't imply it at all. But the script itself only seems
> to have flags for files, and appears to create the xen config file as
> if my block device was a normal file, not a block device. Then again,
> I'm new to xen so maybe I'm reading things wrong.
It should still work OK configured that way; please let us know if you
have any problems. It works fine for me!
--Stephen
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