On Tue, December 20, 2005 1:52 am, Shawn wrote: > On Tuesday 20 December 2005 00:50, Jamie Furtner wrote: > >> Yup, mount it and treat it as the target of an install. Get it set up >> the way you want inside the chroot - including setting up the fstab >> correctly for XEN, then you should be good to go. You don't need to >> install grub - it's only relevant for booting real machines (or machines >> that think they're real...). It's purpose is to have enough smarts to >> bootstrap the kernel. With XEN you skip that and go straight to running >> the kernel, so you don't need to worry about that part. >> >> Jamie >> > > > Sounds straight forward enough, except for one part.... > > > With Grub, I specify the kernel to load. Without Grub, I'm assuming the > domU kernel is the one that would be loaded? Or do I do a FULL install of > a distro including it's kernel? If so, then how do I specify the virtual > host should be loading THAT kernel? > > I feel like such a newbie, but it's good to get back to that once in a > while.. :) Thanks for the tips Jamie. > > Shawn
You're right, the unprivlidged domain kernel that you've specified (/boot/ken_domU) will be booted by XEN. You don't need to install the kernel image into the disk file, however you may need modules to make it (or parts of it) work -- all depending on how you've built the kernel. Jamie _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
