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Re: [Xen-users] Cannot open root device

Lyndsay Roger wrote:
On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 10:19 +0200, Hsing-Foo Wang wrote:

I use Ubuntu and with partitions I just cp -a /* /mnt/dom1
to copy the whole thing to another partition, then change a few config
files and I have the other domains running.
Depending on the size of your disk you may be able to copy your existing
system to a file and use that as a guest.

Without kernel changes?? I thought the guest OS needs be recompiled to be used under Xen as a guest OS.


The guest does not use the kernel from the guest filesystem. It uses the
vmlinuz-2.?.??-xenU kernel from dom0 file system but it uses the modules
from its own file system so you need to copy
the /lib/modules/kernel-version modules that are supplied in the xen
binary package or that you complied, to the guest filesystem.

Hope I don't confuse things more :-)

Oh yes you did :-)

So for example i want to use Centos 3.4 as a guest OS, how would I go about please? Let's say I have 1 Centos 3.4 ISO file.

-HF

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