Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH][XM-TEST] Add support for pulling initrd images from a repo

[Paul Larson <pl@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Ewan Mellor wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 11:34:29AM -0800, Dan Smith wrote:
>
>  
>
> > PL> This patch to the Makefile allows you to specify INITRD="url" when
> > PL> running make existing to make it download a prebuilt copy of the
> > PL> initrd from a repository.
> >
> > Yay.  Really.  Yay.
> >
> > It was previously discussed at the summit that xensource might be able
> > to host an initrd for the community.  Now that this functionality is
> > in xm-test, perhaps a URL could be posted to be used as a default for
> > the INITRD variable?
> >    
> Yes, we will do this.  Dan, if you (or someone else at IBM) could provide a
> 'known good' initrd, then we'll host that, and I'll synchronise with you so
> that the patch to refer to that initrd goes in only once the initrd is in
> place.
>
> They will be placed into
>
> http://xm-test.xensource.com/ramdisks/
>
> Please make sure that xm-test will only fetch the initrd if it can't find one
> locally, and will resume interrupted downloads rather than start again from
> scratch.  This will hopefully avoid our machines melting under the load!
>  
Hi Ewan, I'm still not seeing a xm-test.xensource.com.  Did this ever 
get created?
Thanks,
Paul Larson

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