Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] Gentlemen, please start your engines! :-)

[Dietmar Hahn <dietmar.hahn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am Mittwoch, 13. Juni 2007 schrieb Alex Williamson:
> On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 15:30 +0200, tgingold@xxxxxxx wrote:
> > Quoting Jes Sorensen <jes@xxxxxxx>:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > So I kinda got bored of booting Xen on that little test box I have here
> > > and tried it out on a medium sized system instead. I ran into a couple
> > > of issues in the sn2 specific code and some with default values in the
> > > dom kernel being set to silly low numbers ..... like CONFIG_NR_CPUS.
> >
> > Congratulation!
> >
> > > Basically I wont be able to go bigger than this before we switch to
> > > 4-level page tables for dom0 :-(
> >
> > ...
> >
> > > I was hoping someone could point me to a link with a 'how to boot domU
> > > for dummies' now that dom0 has booted.
> >
> > Here is how I do it:
> > I create a partition for domU.
> > I copy the entire dom0 filesystem to domU partition.
> > I modify /etc/inittab, /etc/fstab and a few others (hostname, network...)
> > I copy and modify the example in /etc/xen
> >
> > xend start
> > xm create -c xxx
>
>    If you're on Debian, debootstrap is your friend.  Even if you're not
> on Debian, you can get debootstrap and easily make Debian domUs.  Just
> make a filesystem image, loopback mount it, then run something like (as
> root):
>
> debootstrap etch <loopback mount point> http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian
>
> Then you can chroot into the image and fixup the fstab and inittab (to
> start a getty in the right place).
>
>       Alex

Hi Jes,

maybe you can have a look at
http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-ia64-devel/2005-12/msg00090.html
and see "Make OSimg for DomU".

Dietmar.

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