At date and time Sun, 24 Aug 2014 18:39:05 +0530, Mayuresh wrote: > I am running NetBSD 6.1 i386, XEN3 DOM0, xentools 41. > > I have a Fedora 17 installation on a separate partition. Currently I can > dual boot into either of the OSes. > > I am trying to run Fedora 17 as DomU on NetBSD Dom0. > > Firstly, is it a terrible idea - particularly if I need to continue to use > the Fedora 17 installation natively as well?
No, not a terrible idea at all. I did this some years ago with Slackware. Quite straightforward, even though I was new to Slackware and NetBSD at the time. When you are in bare-metal Fedora make sure disk mounts are specified with UUID rather than /dev, so that the mounts are correct for both bare-metal and domU. Just run blkid to get a mapping of UUID to /dev Then replace /dev/sdaXXX with the corresponding UUID in /etc/fstab. For example, replace this: /dev/sda1 / ext3 defaults 1 2 with this: UUID=41c22818-fbad-4da6-8196-c816df0b7aa8 / ext3 defaults 1 2 Perhaps Fedora already specifies mounts this way; Slackware doesn't. I also found it easier to set up if I used LVM. Another thing you should do while in bare-metal Fedora is set up SSH, VNC and/or XDMCP, so that you will be able to log into Fedora when it's running as a domU. -- Gerard Lally