Hi list. I've used Xen to run a VM on my workstation for testing, but for various reasons (one of which is that I didn't like the Fedora 7 libvirt UI and couldn't be bothered to learn the xen command line syntax) I decided that I want to try out KVM. I'm using Fedora 7, and to get a recent kernel I need to use a non-xen kernel (The latest xen enabled kernel for Fedora 7 is 2.6.20, while the latest "standard" kernel is 2.6.22) - so I can use either Xen or KVM.
As KVM (using qemu for IO) supports the Xen image format, I thought I'd give it a try and load the Xen VM. The VM is a Fedora rawhide from about a month ago, and have several kernels installed on it. When I try to boot it with kvm, no matter what kernel I choose, I get these messages when the kernel loads: device-mapper: ioctl: 4.11.0-ioctl (2006-10-12) initialised: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... No volume groups found Volume group "VolGroup00" not found Unable to access resume device (/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01) mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root' switchroot: mount failed: No such file or directory Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! And that is it. The Xen VM was installed using logical volume management, and it looks like under KVM it doesn't manage to find it. If I understood correctly (and I probably haven't), the para-virtualized Xen VM's kernel was booting using a kernel that is stored on the host's (domain0) file system, right ? how can I mimic the same situation with kvm ? qemu command line takes a -kernel parameter that supposedly would boot the specified kernel image, but I don't know what to give to it and it doesn't seem to like any of the kernel's under the host's /boot directory. Anyway - in case I'm spewing nonsense, feel free to correct me on any aspect that I was wrong with, and I would also appreciate suggestions as to how might I boot my Xen VM under KVM. Thanks in advance. -- Oded ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
