On 08/20/2012 01:37 PM, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote:
Treated myself to some new hardware as advance Eid/Diwali/Christmas/New
Year gift, and was trying to install Xen and get virtual machines
running on that. The path was long and arduous, and is still not
complete, but some of my experiences on the way are documented in:
http://wiki.kandalaya.org/cgi%2dbin/twiki/view/Main/DebianXenMigrateVirtualBox
Covered are:
- Basic Xen setup
- Compiling and installing a custom kernel for the i915 GPU Hung issue
- Extracting a disk image from a VirtualBox VDI
- Creating and running a Xen DomU with the image
It's mostly technical and expects the reader to have decent Linux
sysadmin and basic Xen knowledge.
Feedback, bouquets and brickbats (in moderation :) appreciated.
You had already been a good howto/document writer and this one is yet
another milestone on your journey towards the leadership.
I may be wrong, but I think:
1. We must edit the /etc/fstab in VM image before we boot into it, the
kernel and, or initrd scripts won't be able to find the root partition.
2. It's better we either use UUIDs or LABELs in the /etc/fstab;
applicable to all installations/distos.
Anyway, you did a brilliant attempt to detect problems, research the
solutions and document the procedure/steps which definitely shall be
useful for others as well.
Keep it up :)
--
Balwinder S "bdheeman" Dheeman
(http://werc.homelinux.net/contact/)
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