RE: [Xen-users] Installing SuSE 10.1/10.2 from yast

["Marlier, Ian" <ian.marlier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xen-users-
> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jan Albrecht
> Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 8:55 AM
> To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Xen-users] Installing SuSE 10.1/10.2 from yast
> 
> Hi all,
> I've a running SLES 10 installation, which is able to create XEN
servers
> with SLES 10 without any problem.
> But if I'm trying to create a SuSE 10.1 or a 10.2 server with the yast
> method, it won't work.
> 
> Has anyone been able to get this running?

I'm not running SLES -- just plain ol' regular SUSE -- but my
observations of the way that the installation system works would suggest
that it's not going to be easy...

To wit: The YaST module appears to do the following steps to create the
install system for the new Xen machine:
- Grab the kernel-xen RPM from the _machine_ installation source.  (IE,
the install source that's configured for Dom0 -- an SLES source, in your
case)
- Use rpm2cpio to unpack the RPM into a directory under /tmp
- Use mkinstinitrd to create the installation ramdisk image, using the
just-unpacked kernel.
- Use that new ramdisk to load the installation system.


Because there's no way to tell it what kernel image to use, I think you
might be stuck with the one that's RPMd in the SLES install source...

That said -- if you (or anyone else!) finds a way to make YaST use a
different kernel, I would LOVE to know about it!  The kernel-xen RPM's
kernel doesn't have NFS support compiled in (it's a module), which makes
nfsroot installation through the GUI effectively impossible...

- Ian

_______________________________________________
Xen-users mailing list
Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users