hydra <hydrapo...@gmail.com> writes: >> However, you don't have >>> hvm/qemu enabled so that's why your HVM guests won't start up. >>> >> >> Indeed that was the problem. Once I found that out, I finally was able to >> get it to work. It's quite frustrating when you follow the documentation >> and yet things just don't work for unknown reasons. >> >> > Maybe try to modify the wiki for others to know?
Yes, I did a couple days ago. > Actually PV guests are not that hard at all.<br> > </blockquote> > <br></span> > Well, how do you do that?=C2=A0 Soon I want to do some Gentoo installations= > on this server.=C2=A0 Can I just start with HVM and switch over to PV once= > the installation is done?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>From a running s= > ystem lvm partitions are created for the virtual machine, then you mount th= > ose partitions, unpack stage3 on them, chroot and follow the same way as wi= > th installing a normal machine. You need to enable this when compiling the = > kernel. Thanks, that sounds really easy and makes sense; I'll try that :) -- Again we must be afraid of speaking of daemons for fear that daemons might swallow us. Finally, this fear has become reasonable.