Been running Hardy Xen Dom0 here, solid as a rock, on top of gutsy
gibbon. I downloaded source and backported Xen. Just added patch
here, and recompiled, now DomU is running sweetly too!
I have been running Debian Etch 2.6.18 DomU (maintained source tree),
and also have a 2.6.25 paravirt Ops DomU working as well.
Here are few tips:
Hard drives are /dev/xvda1, /dev/xvda2 etc. Edit /etc/fstab
accordingly.
Console is /dev/xvc0 - Just edit /etc/inittab to run 1 getty on console,
and comment out all the rest, add console=xvc0 to 'extra' line in domain
config file in /etc/xen.
Also, install udev in your DomUs, and create a minimal /dev to go
underneath it on /dev so that you get console messages after init is
started. The console on the kernel config line will give you a console
while an initrd is loaded.
To get a linux 2.6.25 Xen kernel working, strip the vmlinux in the top
of the source tree after compile and compress:
Yep,
Been running Hardy Xen Dom0 here, solid as a rock, on top of gutsy
gibbon. I downloaded source and backported Xen. Just added patch
here, and recompiled, now DomU is running sweetly too!
I have been running Debian Etch 2.6.18 DomU (maintained source tree),
and also have a 2.6.25 paravirt Ops DomU working as well.
Here are few tips:
Hard drives are /dev/xvda1, /dev/xvda2 etc. Edit /etc/fstab
accordingly.
Console is /dev/xvc0 - Just edit /etc/inittab to run 1 getty on console,
and comment out all the rest, add console=xvc0 to 'extra' line in domain
config file in /etc/xen.
Also, install udev in your DomUs, and create a minimal /dev to go
underneath it on /dev so that you get console messages after init is
started. The console on the kernel config line will give you a console
while an initrd is loaded.
To get a linux 2.6.25 Xen kernel working, strip the vmlinux in the top
of the source tree after compile and compress:
$ strip vmlinux -o vmlinux-striped
$ gzip -c vmlinux-striped > vmlinuz
and use that as Xen kernel. xm create cannot load a staright bzImage
kernel yet.
Networking goes sweetly as I use my own network configuration package.
The Hard source is now on track!
Cheers,
Matthew Grant
PS: If you are wondering, I am a Debian Maintainer