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XEN on RAID
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> Is it possible to run Xen on a RAID-partition? I've got 2 18GB

> SCSI-HDD with a 512MB swap partition on each, 50MB boot partition on

> each and the rest is a RAID-partition mounted as root.

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> I've got SUSE 9.3 and installed XEN within the first installation.

> When I boot from this entry in GRUB, there is a kernel-panic-message

> and the system reboots.

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> I tested it on an system with a 10 GB IDE HDD and it started without

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> S. Slamka
Re: XEN on RAID [ In reply to ]
Le Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 04:55:10PM +0200, Stefan Slamka [ss@raut.de] a écrit:
> Is it possible to run Xen on a RAID-partition? I've got 2 18GB
> SCSI-HDD with a 512MB swap partition on each, 50MB boot partition on
> each and the rest is a RAID-partition mounted as root.
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> I've got SUSE 9.3 and installed XEN within the first installation.
> When I boot from this entry in GRUB, there is a kernel-panic-message
> and the system reboots.
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> I tested it on an system with a 10 GB IDE HDD and it started without
> problems.

We run Xen on hardware RAID (3ware SATA cards) without problem.
You just need to make a Dom0 kernel which include the hardware drivers
for your RAID card.



Dom

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