I'm following the wiki
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Xen#Manually_Create_a_PV_Guest_VM
(section "
Set Up Initial Guest Configuration
")
I downloaded the netboot initrd.gz from
https://mirror.arizona.edu/ubuntu//ubuntu/dists/bionic/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/xen/
but in the .cfg , what should I specify for the "disk = " line? ---- my
host box is not using LVM, so I'll have to use "file-backed storage" for PV
disk image. (https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Storage_options , indeed
this worked when I gave --dir= instead of --lvm= when running the
xml-create command in
https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_Project_Beginners_Guide )
here is my current config:
yy@yy-70A4000HUX:~/ub_xen$ cat ub_xen.cfg
name = "ubud1"
kernel = "/home/yy/ub_xen/vmlinuz"
ramdisk = "/home/yy/ub_xen/initrd.gz"
#bootloader = "/usr/lib/xen-4.4/bin/pygrub"
memory = 1024
vcpus = 1
# Custom option for Open vSwitch
vif = [ 'bridge=xenbr0' ]
disk = [ 'vdev=hda,target=/home/yy/ub_xen/images' ]
# You may also consider some other options
# [[http://xenbits.xen.org/docs/4.4-testing/man/xl.cfg.5.html]]
yy@yy-70A4000HUX:~/ub_xen$
I ran the command with sudo xl create -c ub_xen.cfg
this worked fine first, giving me the regular install process on console,
pulling install files from remote archive, but when it comes to the step of
disk paritioning, it's showing me a "SCSI" partitioning choice, with no
volumes / partitions/disks to be chosen.
I guess this is because I'm not setting the right value for "disk = [ ]"
option. what should I use here if I use file-backed storage for PV (just
like VMware does)?
thanks a lot
Yang
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Xen#Manually_Create_a_PV_Guest_VM
(section "
Set Up Initial Guest Configuration
")
I downloaded the netboot initrd.gz from
https://mirror.arizona.edu/ubuntu//ubuntu/dists/bionic/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/xen/
but in the .cfg , what should I specify for the "disk = " line? ---- my
host box is not using LVM, so I'll have to use "file-backed storage" for PV
disk image. (https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Storage_options , indeed
this worked when I gave --dir= instead of --lvm= when running the
xml-create command in
https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_Project_Beginners_Guide )
here is my current config:
yy@yy-70A4000HUX:~/ub_xen$ cat ub_xen.cfg
name = "ubud1"
kernel = "/home/yy/ub_xen/vmlinuz"
ramdisk = "/home/yy/ub_xen/initrd.gz"
#bootloader = "/usr/lib/xen-4.4/bin/pygrub"
memory = 1024
vcpus = 1
# Custom option for Open vSwitch
vif = [ 'bridge=xenbr0' ]
disk = [ 'vdev=hda,target=/home/yy/ub_xen/images' ]
# You may also consider some other options
# [[http://xenbits.xen.org/docs/4.4-testing/man/xl.cfg.5.html]]
yy@yy-70A4000HUX:~/ub_xen$
I ran the command with sudo xl create -c ub_xen.cfg
this worked fine first, giving me the regular install process on console,
pulling install files from remote archive, but when it comes to the step of
disk paritioning, it's showing me a "SCSI" partitioning choice, with no
volumes / partitions/disks to be chosen.
I guess this is because I'm not setting the right value for "disk = [ ]"
option. what should I use here if I use file-backed storage for PV (just
like VMware does)?
thanks a lot
Yang