Re: [CentOS-virt] Has anyone been able to start a Fedora 16 VM in Xen PV?

2012-01-18 Thread Scot P. Floess
I really want to thank everyone who responded This worked for me as well and I've got it working from a kickstart installed using KOAN/Cobbler... 2. After install has finished and before you reboot, switch to text console on ALT-F2 of your install and copy the

Re: [CentOS-virt] Has anyone been able to start a Fedora 16 VM in Xen PV?

2012-01-11 Thread Norman Gaywood
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 05:59:56PM +0400, Eugene Chupriyanov wrote: I've managed to setup F16 PV-guest domU under Xen Cloud Platform. It's more than just Xen, but solution will be the same. So what you need to do: 1) Don;t use GPT (install with nogpt kernel parameter) 2) Create bootable

Re: [CentOS-virt] Has anyone been able to start a Fedora 16 VM in Xen PV?

2012-01-10 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 9 Jan 2012, R P Herrold wrote: On Tue, 10 Jan 2012, Norman Gaywood wrote: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=746602 (pygrub cannot start F16 PV guests (GPT partition) under Xen 4.1.1) why would one use GPT for a domU? seems like gross overkill ... following on myself, I

Re: [CentOS-virt] Has anyone been able to start a Fedora 16 VM in Xen PV?

2012-01-10 Thread Scot P. Floess
Ditto on my end - I tried both with the same results you mention... On Tue, 10 Jan 2012, Norman Gaywood wrote: On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 07:20:05PM -0500, S.Tindall wrote: On Mon, 2012-01-09 at 18:56 -0500, R P Herrold wrote: On Tue, 10 Jan 2012, Norman Gaywood wrote:

Re: [CentOS-virt] Has anyone been able to start a Fedora 16 VM in Xen PV?

2012-01-09 Thread Norman Gaywood
Sorry for the top post but I think it's appropriate here. The message below was posted 20th of December last year with no response. I've now hit the same problem. I have CentOS 5.7 and and trying to install an F16 domU PV guest. It seems that pygrub is failing to read the grub2 setup. It also

Re: [CentOS-virt] Has anyone been able to start a Fedora 16 VM in Xen PV?

2012-01-09 Thread Norman Gaywood
On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 07:20:05PM -0500, S.Tindall wrote: On Mon, 2012-01-09 at 18:56 -0500, R P Herrold wrote: On Tue, 10 Jan 2012, Norman Gaywood wrote: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=746602 (pygrub cannot start F16 PV guests (GPT partition) under Xen 4.1.1) why would