On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 8:34 PM, Jon Schewe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Todd Deshane wrote: > > I saw the proc filesystem in it and was rather concerned about it as that > seems like a mistake. In the past I booted it with pygrub as I had an image > file. Given that this is a tarfile, grub isn't installed. Do I just need to > copy the kernel out and boot that then install grub once I get into it? > > > > Right that makes sense to me, proc seems unnecessary. You thing you could > do is to extract the tar file and move all but the proc directory into > a guest image > file. Also then create an empty /proc directory in the guest image. > > The pygrub method of booting will soon be deprecated and replaced with > PV-Grub > for security reasons. > > > Can you tell me more about this? >
Here are some links that explain a lot more about it. http://www.xen.org/files/xensummitboston08/SamThibault_XenSummit.pdf http://www.xen.org/media/Movies/XenSummitBostonDay2/Thibault.AVI http://xen.markmail.org/search/?q=PV%20Grub#query:PV%20Grub%20from%3A%22Samuel%20Thibault%22%20type%3Adevelopment+page:1+mid:36ok2hmcjw7d4shi+state:results > You don't need to use pygrub or PV-Grub to boot though, you could simple use > the > dom0 kernel and ramdisk by specifying them in your config file. > > replace your bootloader=pygrub line with: > > kernel=/boot/<your dom0 kernel> > ramdisk=/boot/<your dom0 initrd> > > > > Umm, that will only work if my dom0 kernel matches the openfiler kernel as > the modules won't be found... > It should actually boot fine. I booted it using that method. The one thing you might need to modify is the /etc/fstab in the guest filesystem before you boot it. Or label the partition "/" before populating it. > As for the missing disk image, that would have to be up to the > openfiler developers > to provide. In the past I thought that the disk image was a very nice > touch and made > the process of using openfiler as a Xen guest much easier. Is there a > reason it was > dropped or was it simply a mistake? > > > > I'd like to hear what the plan is here as well. > > -- > Jon Schewe > Research Scientist > BBN Technologies > 5775 Wayzata Blvd. > Suite 630 > St. Louis Park, MN 55416 > 952-545-5720 - Office > 952-545-5727 - Fax > www.bbn.com > -- Todd Deshane http://todddeshane.net check out our book: http://runningxen.com _______________________________________________ Openfiler-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openfiler.com/mailman/listinfo/openfiler-users
