Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 21:46:56 +0800 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: -current snapshots and xen kernels Message-ID: <d763ac660905150646qb5f454fm26fd1f7413bad820@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905151433540.23847@fledge.watson.org> References: <d763ac660905142100h66f10b84yd4405de61513f2d2@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905151021010.54211@fledge.watson.org> <d763ac660905150557p1f0bd391j84421e6516318d43@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905151433540.23847@fledge.watson.org>
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2009/5/15 Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>: > The goal would be to make it trivial to install FreeBSD Xen domU boxes by > providing an active selection in the installer for such a kernel, entirel= y > avoiding the ned for people to know anything about the installation proce= ss. > Perhaps not as obtrusive as "Are you installing a Xen domU domain" but an > easy way to get to it (or just an alternative first ISO that does the Xen > kernel by default). =A0Our kernel configuration chapters in the handbook = also > need updating to reflect this... Right, but how do you get all of the installer stuff to run in the paravirtualised environment? :) I'm not talking about a hardware-xen-vm-with-pvm-extensions, I'm talking about paravirtualisation only. I'm sure one could -make- a bootable single domu kernel image and sysinstall md with the sysinstall being "xen aware" enough where needed. In any case the initial step is still to get the xen DomU kernel included in the current snapshot somehow; this can happen without needing to look into the sysinstall stuff just yet. One thing I really disliked with the CentOS Xen DomU installer is that it really is only prepared for a -DOS- disk image, rather than being given a set of partitions to initialise. I'd really like to avoid being cornered into needing to do the same for FreeBSD DomU VMs installed via sysinstall. Adrian
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