Re: [Xen-users] Installing Fedora 5 as the guest domain...

["John R. Shannon" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Petersson, Mats wrote:
>  
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> > [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> > Arsen Hayrapetyan
> > Sent: 02 August 2006 14:15
> > To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [Xen-users] Installing Fedora 5 as the guest domain...
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have the RHEL4.1 Linux as dom0 and want to intstall
> > Fedora 5 Core Linux as domU...
> > I have created the ext3 filesystem in vm1disk file:
> >
> > ================================================
> > dd if=/dev/zero  of=vm1disk bs=1k seek=16384k count=1
> > mkfs -t ext3 vm1disk
> > ================================================
> >
> > Then I created a logical volume:
> >
> > ================================================
> > mount -o loop vm1disk /mnt
> > losetup /dev/loop0 vm1disk
> > pvcreate /dev/loop0
> > vgcreate vg /dev/loop0
> > lvcreate -L14G -n compnode vg
> > lvcreate -L1G -n compswap vg
> > ================================================
> >
> > Now I want to install Fedora 5 Core Linux as the guest domain
> > on that volume. 
> >
> > Can anyone point me to the documentation of how can I do that?
> The easiest way (that I know of) is to use the CDROM/DVD image(s) to
> install the OS directly into the device, using a CD-boot as the way to
> tell the HVM domain what to do... Of course, this doesn't work if you
> don't have VT/SVM  - in that case you're probably best off creating a
> separate partition and if you must have a file-base installation, create
> a file by using dd from the partition to the file... 
>
> Here's a HVM congiguration to boot CDROM I posted earlier:
> import os, re
> arch = os.uname()[4]
> if re.search('64', arch):
>     arch_libdir = 'lib64'
> else:
>     arch_libdir = 'lib'
> kernel = "/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader"
> builder='hvm'
> memory = 1024
> name = "CDROM-boot"
> vif = [ 'type=ioemu, bridge=xenbr0' ]
> disk = [ 'file:/root/disk.img,ioemu:hda,w' ]
> device_model = '/usr/' + arch_libdir + '/xen/bin/qemu-dm'
> cdrom='/root/isoguest.iso'
> boot='d'
> sdl=0
> vnc=1
> vncviewer=1
> serial='pty'
> ne2000=0
An alternative, if you're not using VT/SVM, is to follow these instructions:

http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraXenQuickstart

I found it necessary to revise the yum.conf file.


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John R. Shannon, CISSP
Chief Scientist
DSCI, Information Assurance Division
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