Re: [Xen-users] XenU installs

[Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@xxxxxxxxx>]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 06:38:34PM +0100, Mark Williamson wrote:
>   
> > It'd be kinda nice if there were a standardised spec for "how to boot an ISO 
> > in a paravirt VM".  This would require some kind of agreement between the 
> > distributors to do things in a uniform way, but it would move us closer to 
> > a "just works" type setup - surely a good thing.  It seems relatively 
> > unfortunate for the install procedure for each paravirt guest to be slightly 
> > different so that the user or tools has to understand those differences.
> >     
> Paravirt-ops may (eventually) help here because removing the need for a
> small xen kernel. Our goal in Fedora is to continue working to make paravirt
> boot & install process be more closely aligned to fullyvirt & baremetal. 
> This is why we do Fedora guest installs by booting anaconda (+ optional
> kickstart) instead of chroot installs, and why we default to using pygrub
> and keeping kernels inside the guest image, etc. All the tools already
> expect things to work in this way with bare metal & fullvirt, so having
> paravirt be different is just complicating things. PXE boot of paravirt
> is another thing we'd like to have too...
>   
Is there any chance of integrating support for doing virt-manager 
installs on top of an *existing* domain, making sure it's shut down, 
then allowing the network boot to do upgrade or rescue procedures on it?
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