From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Larson Subject: Re: [PATCH][XM-TEST] Add support for pulling initrd images from a repo Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 12:29:22 -0600 Message-ID: <44107402.3070007@us.ibm.com> References: <43FB6866.1040506@us.ibm.com> <87d5hgcxq2.fsf@caffeine.beaverton.ibm.com> <20060222150645.GJ28961@leeni.uk.xensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20060222150645.GJ28961@leeni.uk.xensource.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Ewan Mellor Cc: Dan Smith , xen-devel List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Ewan Mellor wrote: >On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 11:34:29AM -0800, Dan Smith wrote: > > > >>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? >> >> > >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 > >http://xm-test.xensource.com/ramdisks/ > >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! > > Hi Ewan, I'm still not seeing a xm-test.xensource.com. Did this ever get created? Thanks, Paul Larson