> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc Teichgraeber [mailto:radar@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 26 January 2007 15:42
> To: Petersson, Mats
> Cc: Gerd Hoffmann; xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Xen-users] howto install from
> cd/network/image/foo with 3.03
>
> Petersson, Mats wrote:
> > For HVM (not para-virtual domains), you can just specify either a
> > CDROM-drive or a .iso as the source of the installation for the
> > virtual cdrom-drive. Is that what you're asking about?
> > Just add the relevant 'phy:/dev/hdd,hdc:cdrom,r' or
> 'file:/someplace/file.iso,hdc:cdrom,r' as appropriate to
> "disk=" in your config.
> >
> > I managed to use "boot=d" (actually, "boot='cd'" was what I
> used, but it booted from the DVD-device) yesterday for a SuSE
> 9.1 (although it got stuck part-way into the install, but
> looking at the state of the DVD, I wouldn't be surprised if
> it was caused by "dirty DVD" rather than anyhting else).
> >
> > I don't do PV at all, so I can't say if that's supposed to
> work or not for para-virtual domains.
> >
> > --
> > Mats
> >
> Meeeep, thats not working for me.
> My Xen version is Xen 3.0.3
> Here is my config for a test domain
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------------------------------------------------
> disk = [ 'file:/data/xen/test/hda,hda,w',
> 'file:/data/xen/SuSE_9.3_CD1.iso,hdc:cdrom,r' ]
> memory = 2048
> vcpus = 1
> image = 'linux'
That's not a HVM domain, so that'd be why it's not workin, as per Gerd's
comments that this was a Xen 2.x feature, and has been changed in Xen 3.0.x
--
Mats
> name = 'test'
> vif = [ 'mac=00:16:3e:b7:77:3d' ]
> localtime = 1
> on_reboot = 'restart'
> on_reboot = 'destroy'
> on_crash = 'restart'
> extra = 'TERM=xterm'
> kernel = '/boot/vmlinuz-xen'
> ramdisk = '/boot/initrd-xen'
> root = '/dev/hda ro'
> boot = 'd'
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> ------------------------------------------------------
> No booting from the iso. I also tried "boot='c'",
> "boot=''cd", boot='dc'".
> I think there is no more working "boot" parameter anymore in
> Xen 3.0.3.
> There is some different way to schoose the boot-medium.
>
> >> So does anyone know how it works or can tell me please
> where to look?
> >>
> >> radar
> >>
> >>
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