Re: [Xen-users] XCP: buitin templates (how they works?)

[George Shuklin <george.shuklin@xxxxxxxxx>]

Oh. Thats cool.

And I can use other program than eliloader? (for example my own?) 

What that loader shall do? 

Or can  I simply use PV-ramdisk/kernel from the begining?


В Пт., 15/10/2010 в 09:30 +0100, Jonathan Ludlam пишет:
> Take a look at 'eliloader' (/usr/bin/eliloader) - if you look at the 
> PV-bootloader on the templates, you'll see it's set to that.
> 
> Jon
> 
> George Shuklin wrote:
> > Good day.
> >
> > I'm pretty curious, how they work with netinst (debian, suse, ubuntu,
> > centos)...
> >
> > As I understand, at first start they downloads xen-aware kernel and
> > netinst initrd from repository (with one user must point with
> > other-config:install-repository)...
> >
> > But how they do it? I means, this some kind of script, some kind of
> > variables...
> >
> > Really, I'd like to do few more templates (f.e. new ubuntu 10.10), but I
> > don't know where to start.
> >
> > Let's starts from beginning...
> >
> > Where those templates resides? Especially they exists even no any SR are
> > created..
> >
> > They contains following in other-config:
> >
> > default_template: true; linux_template: true; install-methods:
> > cdrom,http,ftp; install-arch: i386; debian-release: lenny; disks:
> > <provision><disk device="0" size="8589934592" sr="" bootable="true"
> > type="system"/></provision>; install-distro: debianlike
> >
> > But this is definitive not enough for pinpoint name of kernel/initrd to
> > download...
> >
> > I tried to export template, unpack it (ova.xml), look inside and yet
> > found no lines like
> > dists/stable/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/xen/...
> >
> > So: where I shall start to dig in? Thanks.
> >
> > ---
> > wBR, George.
> >
> >
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