On Nov 30, 2006, at 2:08 PM, Henning Sprang wrote:
On 11/29/06, Michael Tautschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> already NFS support built into my domU-kernel. But what else do i
> need to be ready to use fai with xen?
>
Network, disk, NFS should be about it...
and IP PNP, in case the installserver address and ip should come via
dhcp as usually with FAI.
Debian Xen kernels lack all these AFAIK.
I think, You also want to use ide disk in the DomU, as there are some
conflicts between nfs root and the scsi driver, if I remember
correctly - I had that problem and there where mails about this on
this list and on xen-users some months ago... but I am not really sure
anymore and too lazy to look it up now.
Henning
Thanks for all your replies!
It's working now with custom kernel, IP PNP DHCP wasnt in my domU
kernel and there was no support for the disk, I assumed this should
be in the config as standard, so i didnt even check if it was in it.
I used to have a config with scsi disks, but now i changed to ide and
its working.
I have some basic questions about using xen with custom configuration.
should you use a custom hypervisor as well? or could you use the one
from debian?
Since i've been using xen, i always built it from source with two
custom kernels, but now as I want to use FAI to install my servers, I
dont know exactly what should be wise to do, because all of the
software has to be packaged into deb-files to install it.
I guess its rather complicated to compile the xen-utils manually and
create a deb-pkg. So can you use debian's pkgs for the admin-
utilities and custom kernels together? I've seen that it's working
but maybe that's a foolish thing to do (?)
Mario
