[Xen-users] Q: HOWTO manually boot SLES10 installation

["Ulrich Windl" <ulrich.windl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

in SLES10 YaST insists in "xorg-x11" being installed, even if the display is 
redirected to a remote host. So I thought: Can't I do it simpler?

I'm still new to XEN, but I started like this:

mount the SLES10 DVD to /mnt, and use this configuration file:

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disk = [ 'phy:/dev/system/as1,hda,w', 'phy:/dev/hda,hdb,r' ]
memory = 765
cpus = "2-3"
vcpus = 2
builder = 'linux'
name = 'test'
vif = [ 'bridge=xenbr0',
        'bridge=xenbr1' ]
localtime = 0
on_poweroff = 'destroy'
on_reboot = 'restart'
on_crash = 'restart'
extra = ' initrd=initrd textmode=1'
kernel = '/boot/vmlinux-2.6.16.21-0.25-xen.gz'
ramdisk = '/boot/initrd-2.6.16.21-0.25-xen'
root = '/mnt/boot/x86_64/root'
#bootloader = '/usr/lib/xen/boot/domUloader.py'
#bootentry = 'hda1:/boot/vmlinuz-xen,/boot/initrd-xen'
-----

An "xm create -c test" gets this far:
--------
[...]
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 262144 (order: 10, 4194304 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)
TCP reno registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
XENBUS: Timeout connecting to devices!
Starting udevd
Creating devices
Loading xennet
netfront: Initialising virtual ethernet driver.
Loading xenblk
Registering block device major 3
 hda:Loading dm-mod
<6>device-mapper: 4.5.0-ioctl (2005-10-04) initialised: dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx
 unknown partition table
Loading dm-snapshot
 hdb:ata_id[474]: main: HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed for '/dev/.tmp-3-0'
Waiting for /dev/mapper/control to appear:  ok
 unknown partition table
ata_id[485]: main: HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed for '/dev/.tmp-3-64'
Loading reiserfs
  Unable to find volume group "system"
Waiting for device /dev//mnt/boot/x86_64/root to appear: 
..............................not found -- exiting to /bin/sh
$
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I have no idea how SUSE's Yast does OS installation, but I'd like to do it 
without 
the whole X11 overhead in Dom0. SUSE seems to have hidden the boot 
configuration 
files on the DVD, so tisngs seem a bit complicated. Any help?

Regards,
Ulrich


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