[Fwd: Re: [Xen-devel] Newbee - Xenoboot CD]

[Ted Hilts <thilts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 Tim:
I emailed improperly so am now forwarding to you and the list and have also
included -- immedialy
below -- a question about the LIVE CD.

Could you provide the URL for the statement you made, "There will be a Xen/Debian/BSD
live CD available from the Xen project site within the next few days, which
does boot to Xen". I am very interested in this CD (probably an iso image?).

Does this mean that the LIVE CD contains a Debian Distribution with Xen installed
and containing one virtual machine containing the BSD OS? If so, I assume
one can create another virtual machine with some other OS, or would this
LIVE CD be restricted to the one existing virtual machine? In other words
what would one be able to do with this LIVE CD other than run the BSD OS
as a demo? Could the LIVE CD or it's contents somehow be put onto a hard
drive to provide a fully functional and expandable system? I read in a magazine
that such things are possible when the OS is Debian.

Following is the contents of the email I am forwarding.

      Tim
 
 Thank you for the comment.  I created a high level brief (no details) 4
point outline regarding what I think I have to do and would appreciate your
comments.  
 
So I guess (based on what you said) I will have to:

1. Install a Linux distribution (how about SuSE 9.1 which has a 2.6.x kernel)?
2. Either (using the Xen source or an Xen binary) replace the SuSE 9.1 kernel
with Xen which I understand is built on (uses or is part of -- ported to) either
the 2.4.x and the 2.6.x kernel)?
3. Then using Xen create a virtual machine into which I can "plant" SuSE 9.2 OS
or some other 2.6.x based Linux distribution or even BSD?
4. Then I can take the customized Xenoboot CD for that Xen installation and use it for
a permanent front end boot and recovery system and also a way to backup systems
as well as using one system as a template to create(clone) others or migrate a system
or even partitions????

Thanks, Ted 
 
 Tim Deegan wrote:
 
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> Hi Ted,
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> Just to be clear -- you know the Xenoboot CD doesn't have Xen on it,
> right?  It's just a piece of boot infrastructure we use for controlling
> test machines.
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> There will be a Xen/Debian/BSD live CD available from the Xen project
> site within the next few days, which does boot to Xen (but doesn't do
> the boot infrastructure things that the Xenoboot does), or alternatively
> Jred Rhine has made a Xen/ttylinux boot CD which is much smaller and
> would be easier to download. ( http://software.wordzoo.com/xencd/ )
>
> Tim.
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