[xenpreview-dev] Fix for Xen Paravirtualized Guest Installation (SLES 10 Beta 10 / SL 10.1 RC1)

[Thorolf Godawa]

Hi,

first, thanks a lot for your answers!

 >> what is the correct way to create easily an install source
 >> on an NFS- server?
 > Nothing special; just do a recursive copy to your NFS root, e.g.:
 > mkdir -p /srv/nfs/SLES10
 > cp -ax /media/dvd/* /srv/nfs/SLES10
I made this always with the OSS 10.1 beta-CDs and it worked great, but 
it didn't worked with the SLES 10.0 beta-CD's, but I'll try it again!

 > Yes; this is the "mini" ISO on the FTP sites.  Look for
 > "SLES-10-i386-Beta10-mini.iso".
Can you tell me on which ftp-server it can be found?

I tried on the normal ftp.suse.com/pub/suse but didn't found anything 
and if I go to the Novell-dl I only have access to the following via Web 
but no ftp:
DISCLAIMER.txt	1.3 KB (1339)
MD5SUMS	1.8 KB (1872)
SLED-10-CD-i386-Beta10-CD1.iso	605.0 MB (634449920)
SLED-10-CD-i386-Beta10-CD2.iso	636.3 MB (667248640)
SLED-10-CD-i386-Beta10-CD3.iso	681.2 MB (714369024)
SLED-10-CD-i386-Beta10-CD4.iso	586.8 MB (615340032)


>>> Second Issue:
>>> SLES 10 Beta 10 and SUSE Linux 10.1 RC1 paravirtualized
>>> guest installations do not work in the official builds.
>> Does this affect me if I don't use the YaST- XEN- menu for 
>> installing Linux- VMs on my host? I rather mount an image-
 >> file as loop-back-device and do an installation into a
 >> directory from YaST!
> No.  This should work.  Let us know if it doesn't.
Unfortunately it isn't working.

There are several "more or less" important RPM-packages like at, 
openssh, postfix, cron and the kernel that could not be installed while 
doing a "installation into a directory" - so the paravirtualized Linux 
is not able to start at all after finishing!


I also tried to create a HVM-SLES 10-installation, the VM starts, the 
SDL- or VNC-window opens with the BIOS and then accesses the 
SLES-Boot-CD. But the installation stops BEFORE I seen the 
welcome-screen with the "hellos" in different languages, I only see the 
resized screen and a small green bar at the top of the screen!

A Ubuntu-install-CD starts without problems into the installation-routine!


Thanks a lot,
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Chau y hasta luego,

Thorolf

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