Re: [PATCH][XM-TEST] Add support for pulling initrd images from a repo

[Paul Larson <pl@us.ibm.com>]

Ewan Mellor wrote:

>On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 11:34:29AM -0800, Dan Smith wrote:
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>>PL> This patch to the Makefile allows you to specify INITRD="url" when
>>PL> running make existing to make it download a prebuilt copy of the
>>PL> initrd from a repository.
>>
>>Yay.  Really.  Yay.
>>
>>It was previously discussed at the summit that xensource might be able
>>to host an initrd for the community.  Now that this functionality is
>>in xm-test, perhaps a URL could be posted to be used as a default for
>>the INITRD variable?
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>Yes, we will do this.  Dan, if you (or someone else at IBM) could provide a
>'known good' initrd, then we'll host that, and I'll synchronise with you so
>that the patch to refer to that initrd goes in only once the initrd is in
>place.
>
>They will be placed into
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>http://xm-test.xensource.com/ramdisks/
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>Please make sure that xm-test will only fetch the initrd if it can't find one
>locally, and will resume interrupted downloads rather than start again from
>scratch.  This will hopefully avoid our machines melting under the load!
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Hi Ewan, I'm still not seeing a xm-test.xensource.com.  Did this ever 
get created?

Thanks,
Paul Larson