Re: [Xen-users] Diskless xen

[Alexander Hoßdorf <xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stefan de Konink schrieb:
> On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, Javier Guerra wrote:
>
>   
> > On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 9:48 AM, Denis J. Cirulis <denis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >     
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I want to implement a diskless xen hypervisor. The way I suppose it will work 
> > > is xen booted over pxe and
> > > getting iscsi san storage to store vm images.
> > >
> > > Is solution like that usable ?
> > >       
> > it certainly is.  i believe somebody here did that, but using AoE
> > instead of iSCSI....
> >
> > the result is extremely neat, splitting your hardware needs in two
> > types of boxes: storage boxes, and processor/RAM boxes.  adding extra
> > storage or processing power means just plugging it in and adding it to
> > the respective tables. no more software installing!
> >     
> For now I stick with NFS-root, but there in no reason not to go to
> PXE/initrd entirely...
>
>
> Stefan
>
>   
I played around with this, too.
But if I make initrd to big. Maybe 128MB, then the System will not boot,
saying something like, not enough memory to boot xen hypervisor.

Anyone had this issue, too?

Cheers,
Alex


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