Re: [Xen-users] Suse 10.1 Virtual Machine Management

["Tijl Van den Broeck" <subspawn@xxxxxxxxx>]

Indeed, I had to do something like that as well. The yast module is
still not quite usable. You can always try the "yast dirinstall",
which will prepare a chrootable environment for you, which can also be
used for Xen with some modifications.

Mount your file/disk on /var/tmp/dirinstall and run the module and
pray it works. It might give a segfault on a x86_64 system (as it did
with one of my machines, but in i686 it should work). If it works, it
is self-explaining and you can't do anything wrong. When done, copy
/etc/passwd and shadow if necessary and modify the domU's network
script according to your needs (dhcp/static). Unmount the system and
boot it.

If that doesn't work you can use Jan's instructions and a copy of your
domU or of another OpenSUSE10.1 system is recommendable (don't forget
to chroot into it and change the startup scripts before booting the
domU, you don't want to start xend in your domU :))

greetings

Tijl Van den Broeck

On 6/2/06, Jan Albrecht <jan.albrecht@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >From my point of view the SuSE 10.1 XEn Installation way is totally
> unuseable. I've tried it several times, but it didn't worked.
> To install SuSE 10.1 the easiest way is to create a new partition (with
> LVM), tar the whole / (including all sudirs) to the new directory and
> use a config like this:
>
> # configuration name:
> name     = "vm1"
> # usable ram:
> memory   = 512
> # kernel und initrd:
> kernel   = "/boot/vmlinuz-xen"
> ramdisk  = "/boot/initrd-xen"
> # boot device:
> root     = "/dev/hda1"
> # boot to run level:
> extra    = "3"
> # network interface:
> vif      = vif = [ 'mac=00:16:3e:a1:de:dd' ]
> # storage devices:
> disk     = [ 'phy:LVM1/vm1,hda1,w' ]
>
> It my case it worked. I never figured ou how to install SuSE10XEN via
> Yast...
>
> Jan
>
>
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