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Re: [Xen-users] Diskless xen

To: "Alexander Hoßdorf" <xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Diskless xen
From: "Javier Guerra" <javier@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 12:20:27 -0500
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On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Alexander Hoßdorf
<xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

it's easy to make small systems, especially with BusyBox,
unfortunately, it would be really hard to make Xen work without
Python, and that alone takes several megabytes.

maybe the easiest non-NFSroot setup would be: a small initrd sets
iSCSI and mounts a r/o partition with the system.  add tmpfs for /var,
/tmp, and maybe NFS for /home

-- 
Javier
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