Re: Porting of Guest OS

["Fajar A. Nugraha" <fajar@telkom.co.id>]

Amitabh Tamhane wrote:

> Hi,
> I am trying to boot a guest OS (SuSE 2.6 kernel) on Xen. But, it is 
> giving me boot errors.
>
> The steps I followed:
> 1) Created a raw diskFile with ext3 filesystem
> 2) Copied /{root,etc,dev,var,usr,bin,sbin,lib} from my SuSE 2.6 
> installation on to the diskFile

I would suggest you copy everything from a non-running linux installation.
You could also use a running machine as starting point, but you should 
exclude these files :

/proc/*
/var/log/*/*
/var/run/*/*
/var/run/*.pid
/var/tmp/*
/var/lock/*/*
/dev/mapper/*
/tmp/*
/sys/*
/mnt/*/*

Note that you NEED /proc, but you don't need anything under it.
Then you have to modify /etc/fstab accordingly, and use /dev/sda1 as root.

> 3) Created a config file as:
> Important parameters are as follows:
> kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-xenU"
> disk = ['file:FullPathToTheDiskFile,sda1,w']
> root = "/dev/sda1"
> (other parameters skipped)
>
> 4) Booted-up the new Domain
>
> It is giving some-errors like /lib/modules/2.6.9-xenU/modules.dep not 
> found. And boots up in the
>
You need to copy /lib/modules/2.6.9-xenU/ from the physical server (the 
server you're running xen's
"make install" from) to the virtual server. Alternatively, recompile the 
xen-U kernel
to disable modules support and you can ignore the error completely.
If you're running athlon-xp or P4/Xeon, I can share my xen-U kernel (or 
the .config), with modules disabled,
optimized for those platform.

> Can anyone tell me what exact changes do i need to make to the SuSE 
> 2.6 kernel to be able to boot it as a new Domain?
>
Are you using 2.4 or 2.6? Your xen config file says 2.4.

> I understand that the machine dependent code has to be changed with  
> new code provided by Xen....but I could not find a place where it 
> says........."These are the exacts steps you need to follow for 
> porting of Guest OS in a Domain"
>
Because it's not there yet :)

Regards,

Fajar


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