Re: [Xen-devel] domU Filesystems

[Tupshin H. <tu...@tu...>]

Brian Hays wrote:

>Hello,
>
>What is the best way to create guest (domU) filesystems? I am
>currently running the latest version on Xen on FC3 and would like to
>create a Redhat 9 and Fedora Core 1 filesystem for use on domU's. What
>is the best way to accomplish this, and also ... will Redhat 9 boot on
>the 2.6.11 kernel (I'm using the xen & kernel-xen0 & U rpms from the
>FC4test1 repository ... it only comes with 2.6 kernels)? If not how
>can I add another xenU kernel (2.4 version)?
>
>Thank you,
>Brian
>  
>
Possible strategies for fresh domU installation that I'm aware of:
1) install to bare hardware, and then copy the filesystem to a place 
where xen can load it
2) install into vmware and then do the same
3) qemu probably works as well...I haven't tried it
4) find a disk image/tarred archive of an installed base system, and 
extract it to a xen accessible partition
4a) find a disk image of an earlier version and use apt/yum/emerge/etc 
to update it after installing
(note that uml and colinux are two projects that have pre-existing disk 
images of some popular distros)
5) use your distro's procedure to bootstrap into a chroot environment 
(if it has one) such as debian's debootstrap or by using gentoo's stage3 
installation approach. (none for RedHat9 that I'm aware of)

-Tupshin