On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 3:30 PM, lee <l...@yagibdah.de> wrote: > Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> writes: > >> On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 5:09 AM, lee <l...@yagibdah.de> wrote: >>> Vladimir Romanov <bluebo...@gmail.com> writes: >>> >>>> Well, what's the problem? When i do this, then i just install debian, xen >>>> kernel, then create some config, download gentoo install cd, run it, and >>>> follow the handbook. >>> >>> How do you run the installer CD in a PV VM? It's not like you could >>> just boot it, or can you? >>> >> >> Correct. I don't believe our install CDs are xen-enabled. You would >> need to boot from another environment, or install the files from >> outside of the xen environment. When I'm installing Gentoo on ec2 now >> I typically just boot any convenient EMI, mount an EBS image, extract >> a stage3, then install/configure a xen-enabled kernel. > > ec2? emi? ebs? >
EC2 is the brand name for Amazon's hosted cloud servers. I meant AMI and not EMI which is an amazon machine image, and EBS is elastic block storage, which is basically Amazon's equivalent of a logical volume. I mentioned it only because Amazon EC2 is based on Xen, so the process for getting EC2 working with a custom kernel is almost the same as what you're trying to do, other than the amazon-specific stuff like using their APIs to actually create/mount/snapshot volumes and all that. -- Rich
