[email protected] wrote: > Hi Jim, > > On Monday, September 19, 2011 2:08 PM, "Jim Fehlig" <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> [email protected] wrote: >> >>> A buddy suggested I should try a different way, using a Centos >>> kernel+ramdisk directly instead of trying to dig for it. >>> >>> >> Good suggestion... >> >> >>> mount -o loop CentOS-6.0-x86_64-netinstall.iso /mnt/Centos6 >>> cp -a /mnt/Centos6/isolinux/{vmlinuz,initrd.img} /stor/ >>> >>> >> Is that a pv or pv-ops capable kernel? >> > > I wouldn't know how to check for certain. I don't know much about > Centos6 yet, just that it's supposed to be a clone of RedHat6 minus the > commercial support. > > I did find this from a Citrix forum > > Re: Death of multi-os Virtualization? > http://forums.citrix.com/message.jspa?messageID=1456321 > > The latest Linux kernels, including the RHEL6 kernel, leverage a > capability called paravirt_ops -- which means that the kernel is > enabled right out of the box to work properly in a > paravirtualized Xen environment (as well as other > paravirtualization) -- without needing a special "xenified" > kernel. One of our SEs has taken it and, with a small number of > simple manual steps, gotten it up and running without a special > kernel. Red Hat's no longer shipping a Xen hypervisor doesn't > affect this at all. > > So it looks like the CentOS kernel should be a paravirt_ops (same as > pv-ops I think) kernel. > > Shouldn't what I'm doing work with that kernel? > > >> Have you considered installing as an hvm guest? >> > > I'm having a hard time finding Opensuse virtualization "DocsForDummies". > > I'd consider anything that works right now. If you can help me tweak my > config I'll try that. >
Config similar to name="blabla" memory=1024 vcpus=4 ... builder="hvm" device_model="/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm" kernel="/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader" boot="d" disk=[ 'file:/var/lib/xen/images/sles11sp1 gmc-hvm/disk0,hda,w', 'file:/path/to/centos6.iso,hdc:cdrom,r', ] ... /etc/xen/examples/ contains quite a few examples for both pv and hvm. But vm-install should help with the installation. Just ensure to check "Full virtualization" for Virtualization Method. Regards, Jim -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
