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 :)


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