[Mageia-discuss] xen and grub

Sat Jul 14 10:49:35 CEST 2012

Op zaterdag 14 juli 2012 04:23:13 schreef Jim Whitby:
+> On 07/14/2012 02:29 AM, andre999 wrote:
+> <snip>
+> 
+> > As Al13n says, we'd really appreciate you joining QA to test Xen for QA.
+> > Or the packaging team to package Xen.
+> 
+> If I can get enough info to make it run.
+> I'd be happy to join QA for xen.
+> 
+> If I can install/run it. *Anyone* can.
+> 
+> I'm not a programmer and have no interest in becoming one.
+
+packagers are not programmers. but we do need some pre-release testing and xen 
+isn't that easy to test without the proper hardware for it.
+
+> > Regards :)
+> 
+> I did find an answer to my original problem.
+> I found a how-to for centos6.2 which was a big help figuring out the
+> grub entry.
+> 
+> The grub entry should look like this:
+> 
+> title Xen 3.0 / XenLinux 2.6
+> kernel (hd0,4)/boot/xen.gz dom0_mem=1024M
+> module (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz
+> root=UUID=454ead11-1953-4c3e-918b-b5d0f1bceb17 splash quiet nokmsboot
+> module (hd0,4)/boot/initrd.img
+> 
+> 
+> Which is a modified mg2 entry.
+> The above will allow xen to boot.
+> 
+> I also figured out I need to make the xen* init scripts active!
+
+iirc, not all init scripts need to be started. xend is not one that is needed.
+
+> Having done that. I had a system that would boot in about 35 minutes.
+
+that's way too long, since we're now using systemd, would it be possible to 
+install bootchart and reconfigure with dracut your initrd, to find out why it's 
+taking so long to boot?
+
+> Needless to say, without *much* more info on what needs doing, I removed
+> all of it.
+> Possibly the  network configuration is partly at fault ( well, I'm sure
+> it is, I just don't know for sure what to do about it ).
+
+the new xen should rely on a bridge being made in the system config (i think)
+
+> I looked at the centos stuff, but not sure how much is applicable on mg2.
+> 
+> Jim
+
+I know a bit about it, but i haven't been able to test it much. I wish i 
+could, and i have a machine at work i can do it for, but it'll take months 
+before i have the time to test it :-( (too much work at work)
+
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