Re: [Xen-devel] xen and reiserfs

[Robin Green <greenrd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Mark Williamson wrote:
> > I'm running Xen on Fedora core 3...
> > uname -a
> > Linux groucho 2.6.10-1.1148_FC4xen0 #1 SMP Sat Feb 19 15:15:24 EST 2005
> > i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> >
> > # xm list
> > Name              Id  Mem(MB)  CPU  State  Time(s)  Console
> > Domain-0           0      121    0  r----    140.9
> Looks good.
>
> > What I'm trying to do is get SuSE 9.2 to come up in it's own domain..
> > /dev/hda2 = root for FC-3
> > /dev/hdb2 = root for SuSE 9.2
> >
> > My config file in /etc/xen (suse)
> > # cat suse
> > kernel ="/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10-1.1148_FC4xenU"
> > memory = 64
> > name = "suse"
> > nics = 1
> > disk = ['phy:hdb2,hdb2,w']
> > root = "/dev/hdb2 ro"
> Also looks good, although I doubt the FC4 kernel includes support for ReiserFS
Actually, it does - but as a module, not built-in. So he needs to build an 
initrd - see my previous message.
> I don't think this is a filesystem support problem - it looks like it's not
> getting that far.  However, SuSE 9.2 uses udev
So does Fedora Core 3, so its initrds should work.

> so it seems likely you'll
> need to boot the SuSE domain with an initrd.
Yup

>  The stock one in your
> SuSE /boot may do the trick
Not with this kernel it won't, because this is a Fedora xenU kernel.

> (If that doesn't work, I think there's also a
> Xen-specific one in the SuSE Xen rpms).
The only trouble with that is, the SuSE Xen rpms probably use a different
version of the Xen patch, which might be incompatible, as you point out.

> Does anyone know whether FC4 is currently on the -stable, -testing or
> -unstable version of Xen?
-unstable

--
Robin


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