On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 12:46 PM, hw <h...@gartencenter-vaehning.de> wrote:
> > > Am 14.07.2015 um 20:56 schrieb hydra: > > Actually PV guests are not that hard at all. >> > > Well, how do you do that? Soon I want to do some Gentoo installations on > this server. Can I just start with HVM and switch over to PV once the > installation is done? >From a running system lvm partitions are created for the virtual machine, then you mount those partitions, unpack stage3 on them, chroot and follow the same way as with installing a normal machine. You need to enable this when compiling the kernel. > > > However, you don't have >> hvm/qemu enabled so that's why your HVM guests won't start up. >> > > Indeed that was the problem. Once I found that out, I finally was able to > get it to work. It's quite frustrating when you follow the documentation > and yet things just don't work for unknown reasons. > > Maybe try to modify the wiki for others to know?
