From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Tom Cranbrook" Subject: Re: a Xandos data dump Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 15:25:14 -0400 Sender: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <415be6e3.5a31.0@australia.edu> Reply-To: tcranbrook@australia.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Errors-To: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Keir Fraser , Ian Pratt , tcranbrook@australia.edu, xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org >> You're best bet is to boot up another partition with native Linux >> and then copy the /dev entries into the other partition. > >..or use another distro. Currently, Gentoo and Xandros both depend on >devfs for populating /dev. Until they switch away from devfs (which >they will at some point, as it will not be provided by Linux 2.6 >forever) they will not be supported out of the box by XenLinux's >device drivers. > unfortunately, this specific system fs has a running win4lin that I want to make available to the network as a win98 server, and I hate the thought of running a whole machine just for this. Don't use it often, but its handy when we need it. It's a round about way of running win98 in xen, I guess :) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl