xen cd 2.0 (pre)

xen cd 2.0 (pre)

[Janne Johansson]

As I understand it, the are tools to make an ISO for the 
not-yet-released 2.0
of xen, and these build.tar.gzs are easily ftp'd from the xen site and 
more or less
easily built given the fact that you have a running linux system, right?

I'd like to ask why those pre-2.0 iso's aren't there when the 1.2 ones are.
The web page has docs talking about the 2.0 cd, but the cd itself seems far
harder to get by than needed.



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Re: xen cd 2.0 (pre)

[Steven Hand]

>As I understand it, the are tools to make an ISO for the 
>not-yet-released 2.0
>of xen, and these build.tar.gzs are easily ftp'd from the xen site and 
>more or less
>easily built given the fact that you have a running linux system, right?
>
>I'd like to ask why those pre-2.0 iso's aren't there when the 1.2 ones are.
>The web page has docs talking about the 2.0 cd, but the cd itself seems far
>harder to get by than needed.

Mark Williamson has been putting together a 2.0 CD. We're really just 
waiting for the final 2.0 release before putting it up there - most 
folks using the current almost-but-not-quite-done 2.0 beta we expect
to be able to pull the bk repo, or the tar balls and, as you say, put
together a CD themselves is they want to - the only real issue is fitting
enough of an install to be useful, but since 2.0 can just 'drop in' on 
a regular filesystem with all the standard rc scripts, the bootable CD 
will probably be deprecated as a standard way of doing an install. 

cheers,

S.



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Re: xen cd 2.0 (pre)

[Mark A. Williamson]

> As I understand it, the are tools to make an ISO for the
> not-yet-released 2.0
> of xen,

Yup, the tools for remastering are on the 1.2 CD.

> I'd like to ask why those pre-2.0 iso's aren't there when the 1.2 ones are.

They're not quite finished ;-)

This time round it's my job to make the demo CD.  It's almost ready but still 
needs some bugs ironing out.  The intention is that a demo CD will be ready 
around the time of the Xen 2.0 release announcement, although if progress is 
good we may make a pre-release on CD.

HTH,
Mark

> The web page has docs talking about the 2.0 cd, but the cd itself seems far
> harder to get by than needed.
>
>
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Re: xen cd 2.0 (pre)

[Bernhard Duebi]

On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 16:37, Mark A. Williamson wrote:
> > As I understand it, the are tools to make an ISO for the
> > not-yet-released 2.0
> > of xen,
> 
> Yup, the tools for remastering are on the 1.2 CD.
> 
> > I'd like to ask why those pre-2.0 iso's aren't there when the 1.2 ones are.
> 
> They're not quite finished ;-)
> 
> This time round it's my job to make the demo CD.  It's almost ready but still 
> needs some bugs ironing out.  The intention is that a demo CD will be ready 
> around the time of the Xen 2.0 release announcement, although if progress is 
> good we may make a pre-release on CD.

I think the CD will have a kernel configuration similar to a
distribution which supports a wide range of hardware. Is it possible to
get the config for 2.6-xen0 ?

BTW: Is is possible to use initrd in xen ? Can you please point me to te
docs ? Thanks.

Sincerely
Bernhard




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Re: xen cd 2.0 (pre)

[Mark A. Williamson]

> I think the CD will have a kernel configuration similar to a
> distribution which supports a wide range of hardware. Is it possible to
> get the config for 2.6-xen0 ?

It'll probably be the standard xen0 default config - 
see /export/scratch/xeno-xencheck.bk/linux-2.6.8.1-xen-sparse/arch/xen/configs/xen0_defconfig


> BTW: Is is possible to use initrd in xen ? Can you please point me to te
> docs ? Thanks.

For dom0, just put a module line into the grub config after the line for the 
xen0 kernel, like for normal Linux.

For other domains you set the initrd variable in the config file and it'll get 
loaded automatically by the domain builder.

HTH,
Mark


>
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> Bernhard
>
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