WARNING - OLD ARCHIVES

This is an archived copy of the Xen.org mailing list, which we have preserved to ensure that existing links to archives are not broken. The live archive, which contains the latest emails, can be found at http://lists.xen.org/
   
 
 
Xen 
 
Home Products Support Community News
 
   
 

xen-users

[Xen-users] DomU image file on NFS Storage

To: Xen Users List <xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-users] DomU image file on NFS Storage
From: Antonio Colin <dftonywhite@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2011 00:02:46 -0500
Delivery-date: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 22:05:32 -0700
Envelope-to: www-data@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Importance: Normal
List-help: <mailto:xen-users-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=help>
List-id: Xen user discussion <xen-users.lists.xensource.com>
List-post: <mailto:xen-users@lists.xensource.com>
List-subscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/mailman/listinfo/xen-users>, <mailto:xen-users-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=subscribe>
List-unsubscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/mailman/listinfo/xen-users>, <mailto:xen-users-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=unsubscribe>
Sender: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi everyone,

I have created a CentOS4 PV on a Xen host contained in a *.img file. Now I want to store that image file
on a NFS server. Does anyone have a config.sxp file example and want to share it on a pastebin service?

I have put the *.img on an NFS server, then mounted the img using #mount -o loop image.img /mnt/centos
and then exported it to the xen host but it does not work since the DomU kernel does not have Root NFS support.

How can I do instead to read directly from the xen host the *.img file stored in the NFS server, I think it would
look like: nfs_root = "/mnt/images/centos/image.img".

** This does not work at all, it ends up with a kernel panic on console.

kernel = "/mnt/images/centos/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-89.ELxenU"
ramdisk = "/mnt/images/centos/boot/initrd-2.6.9-89.ELxenU.img"
memory = 512
name = "centos4"
vcpus = 1
vif = ['']
dhcp = "dhcp"
ip = "192.168.1.100"
netmask  = "255.255.255.0"
gateway  = "192.168.1.254"
hostname = "centos4"
nfs_root = "/mnt/images/centos/"
nfs_server = "192.168.1.98"
root = "/dev/root"
on_reboot   = 'restart'
on_crash    = 'restart'


I would really appreciate one example or config option.
Regards,
Tony.

_______________________________________________
Xen-users mailing list
Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>