Re: [SLE] Installing SUSE VM on FC-Xen

I wonder if it would work to copy /etc, /bin, /usr, /lib, etc...from a
already fully install suse server into a logical volume (lets say
/dev/planetlab/disk1) and make that logical volume the Disk
(phy:/dev/planetlab/disk1) for the virtual machine. Then the only things
left are to set the values of ramdisk and kernel.

anyone? I am really stuck here.. please help...
claris


On 6/27/06, Claris Castillo <ccastil@xxxxxxxx> wrote:


Thanks David!

It is hard for me to believe that I have to install SUSE in another host
so to copy (dd)
the disk into a Logical Volume. I dont have VM ware and also I don't have
an extra machine for this installation. I feel helpless!! On top of that I
can't do a chroot installation given that I am running Xen-FC so I don't
have yast...

cc



On 6/27/06, David Bottrill <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 27 June 2006 19:01, Claris Castillo wrote:
> > I have not been able to find one useful link on how to make a chroot
> > installation of Suse (to boot a Suse VM). Is there any other way this
> can
> > be accomplished? I found one link but it was too much haking.I am sure
> > someting simple must be outhere.
> >
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> > cc
> I've done the same, but the other way round namely I've got debian
> testing
> (X86_64) running with xen on SuSE 10.1.
>
> I had to resort to using VMWare to install in my case debian. I then
> attached
> the debian VM disks to another VM and used dd to copy this disk to a
> file on
> an NFS server.
>
> I then mounted the disk image on the xen box, copied the kernel modules
> from
> the xen host machine into the disc image filesystem, unmounted the disk
> image
> and booted with a hand crafted xen config file.
>
> There may be simpler ways of doing this, but it did work. My next
> project is
> to do a similar thing with the new Ubuntu Dapper server and get that
> running
> on my 10.1 xen machine. I've allready got it running in vmware.
>
> Hope that helps.....
>
> David
>
>
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Claris Castillo
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PhD. Candidate
Computer Science
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC




--
Claris Castillo
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~ccastil
PhD. Candidate
Computer Science
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC

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