[xenpreview-dev] Problems with Xen 9590 and Suse Linux 10.1

[Charles Coffing]

>>> On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at  1:26 PM, in message
<444656A6020000C80000B624 at mcclure.wal.novell.com>, "Rian Hunter"
<rhunter at novell.com> wrote: 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to get a Xen guest system running using 10.1 packages
(xen, 
> kernel- xen, xen- libs, xen- tools, xen- tools- ioemu, xen- devel).
> 
> I used Xen Installation in Yast to install the bootloader. Once I
booted 
> into my domain0 Linux kernel I followed the instructions in the 
> "Virtualization with XEN" document (I made an image, mounted it
loopback, 
> installed suse into the directory, unmounted, used the sample xen
config file 
> appropriately).

That's not the best (nor easiest) way to create an image.  Use the
"Virtual Machine Management (Xen)" tool in YaST (in the "System"
section), instead, to create the VM's disk.

> When I boot my guest system, Xen never presents /dev/hda1. I get a
"waiting 
> for hda1 to appear...." message but it never does. I've looked over
my 
> configuration countless times but it seems to be right. What am I
doing 
> wrong?
> 
> Rian
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