On Friday 24 November 2006 11:22 am, Matthew Stringer wrote: > Does anyone here use Xen in full virtualisation mode much and if so how > stable is it?
I have. It works, but it's slower and you lose some features, so paravirtualization is much better. > I have a system that requires Redhat 7.3 to work (upgrading it would be > particularly difficult). However because it's so old it won't install on > modern boxes. It's way easier to just boot paravirtualized using your SUSE Xen kernel. In fact I *am* running Red Hat 7.3 this way. I used an IDE-to-USB cable to dd the drive to an image on my Xen box and booted it under Xen. Here's my config file: name = 'tesla' memory = 256 vcpus = 1 disk = [ 'file:/var/lib/xen/images/tesla/hda,hda,w'] builder = 'linux' kernel = '/boot/vmlinuz-xen' ramdisk = '/boot/initrd-xen' vif = [ 'mac=xxxxxx, bridge=xendot4' ] localtime = 0 extra = 'root=/dev/hda1' In order to get the Xen kernel to recognise the ext3 partitions, edit /etc/sysconfig/kernel, add 'ext3' to DOMU_INITRD_MODULES, and run mkinitrd. If you want to be able to load kernel modules after boot, copy the /lib/modules from your dom0 into the domU. -- James Oakley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
