Re: d-i support for running in a Xen guest domain

2008-02-03 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 17:30 +, Ian Campbell wrote: > > Unfortunately the Xen domain builder isn't capable of loading a native > bzImage directly -- it requires the ELF vmlinux. I hacked > around that when I was playing with Xen enabled d-i and > then promptly forgot I had done so, which is a

Re: d-i support for running in a Xen guest domain

2008-01-14 Thread maximilian attems
On Sat, 12 Jan 2008, Ian Campbell wrote: > Unfortunately the Xen domain builder isn't capable of loading a native > bzImage directly -- it requires the ELF vmlinux. I hacked > around that when I was playing with Xen enabled d-i and > then promptly forgot I had done so, which is a shame because it'

Re: d-i support for running in a Xen guest domain

2008-01-13 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 05:30:20PM +, Ian Campbell wrote: > > The explicit Xen images will disappear in the future, it just lacks > > infrastructure. > By infrastructure do you mean meta-packages to facilitate upgrade or > something else? Infrastructure as in maintainer scripts. Bastian --

Re: d-i support for running in a Xen guest domain

2008-01-12 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 00:59 +0100, maximilian attems wrote: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 09:58:45PM +, Ian Campbell wrote: > > > I'd like to propose enabling Xen guest support in all the native i?86 > > kernel images (and eventually amd64 too), or at least in the -686-bigmem > > kernel. Since pa

Re: d-i support for running in a Xen guest domain

2008-01-12 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 13:37 +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 09:58:45PM +, Ian Campbell wrote: > > I'm interested in getting d-i to work seamlessly inside a Xen guest > > domain using the paravirt_ops kernel support for Xen in 2.6.24+ > > (currently only available in the k

Re: d-i support for running in a Xen guest domain

2008-01-10 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 09:58:45PM +, Ian Campbell wrote: > I'm interested in getting d-i to work seamlessly inside a Xen guest > domain using the paravirt_ops kernel support for Xen in 2.6.24+ > (currently only available in the kernel svn trunk snapshots builds I > think). 2.6.23 already have

Re: d-i support for running in a Xen guest domain

2008-01-09 Thread maximilian attems
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 09:58:45PM +, Ian Campbell wrote: > I'd like to propose enabling Xen guest support in all the native i?86 > kernel images (and eventually amd64 too), or at least in the -686-bigmem > kernel. Since paravirt ops is already enabled in all kernels (for KVM > and lguest) the

d-i support for running in a Xen guest domain

2008-01-09 Thread Ian Campbell
Hi, Firstly apologies for the cross post but I think this genuinely is of interest to both audiences. I'm subscribed to both lists so no need to CC me. I'm interested in getting d-i to work seamlessly inside a Xen guest domain using the paravirt_ops kernel support for Xen in 2.6.24+ (currently on