On Thursday, December 04, 2014 11:55:50 PM lee wrote: > Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> writes: > > On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 3:39 PM, lee <l...@yagibdah.de> wrote: > >> Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> writes: > >>> On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 1:11 PM, lee <l...@yagibdah.de> wrote: > >>>> Tomas Mozes <tomas.mo...@shmu.sk> writes: > >>>>> The kernel is not in stage3, you have to compile it yourself (or > >>>>> download from somewhere). When you have the kernel image binary, the > >>>> > >>>>> xen configuration for the host can be simple as: > >>>> Compile it with what? Are the sources in stage3, or downloaded so that > >>>> I can compile a suitable Gentoo kernel within the chroot? > >>> > >>> If you've never installed Gentoo anywhere I wouldn't suggest doing it > >>> for the first time under Xen. > >>> > >>> Gentoo stage3s include neither a binary kernel nor the sources. See: > >>> https://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=1&chap=7 > >> > >> That's confusing ... I would think that I can create the file system on > >> the LV and extract the stage3 archive, then chroot into it. From there, > >> I'd have to 'emerge gentoo-sources' and to compile a kernel. > >> > >> Isn't that easier or the same as booting on bare metal into some life > >> system and doing these things from there? > > > > When you boot a CD on bare metal all you're doing is creating the file > > system, extracting the archive, and chrooting into it. So the outcome > > is the same either way. > > > > If your xen guest is going to run on a regular LV you certainly can > > just mount it on the host and chroot into it. That is exactly how I'd > > go about it. > > Yes, I've already created a LV for it (along with others I'm going to > need). Then I got stuck because I wanted to create an xfs file system > and found that I hadn't installed a package required for that and > couldn't install it because there was some problem with downloading > package lists which they only fixed some time later ... > > BTW, can I use xfs for the VM, or will it be difficult to get the VM > booted from xfs?
Using PV, not at all. As long as the kernel for the VM has XFS support built- in. (This is valid for other filesystems as well) > > Once you're in the chroot then you should install the kernel/etc per > > the handbook. > > So there isn't really an advantage to use HVM ... it's even easier > because I can access the LV from dom0. Not really. For the PV, there isn't even a necessity to have a kernel in the VM at all as it is simpler to have the kernel on the filesystem belonging to the host and point the config to that. -- Joost
