Re: [Xen-users] Cannot open root device

[Hsing-Foo Wang <hsing-foo.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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