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Re: [Xen-users] cdrom pv install

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] cdrom pv install
From: jim burns <jim_burn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:16:45 -0500
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On Monday 28 January 2008 08:52:21 pm jonr@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I have a dom0 already and want to install fedora8, I make a config  
> file for the new domU and in the config file I reference the .iso  
> image of the fedora install dvd. I then 'xm create fedoraConfig' and  
> it boots off of the .iso referenced in the config file. I go through  
> the install and install all that I want.
>
> I then change the config file from boot='d' to 'boot='c' and reboot  
> the new domU.
>
> After it comes up, is it a PV or HVM guest?

If you are indeed booting off the .iso, instead of a kernel/initrd pointed to 
by kernel/ramdisk=, it is probably an hvm guest. PV guests  use 
kernel/ramdisk= or bootloader= (pygrub,domuloader.py, etc.) in their configs. 
Hvm guests use builder="hvm" and kernel="/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader" and 
especially device_model="/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm", since that is the program 
that actually provides bios services, and sets up traps for emulated 
instructions.

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