Re: [Xen-devel] Xen on VMware - how to install ? - Keir Fraser - com.xensource.lists.xen-devel

6 messages in com.xensource.lists.xen-develRe: [Xen-devel] Xen on VMware - how t...

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JHJE (Jan Holst Jensen)	08 May 2004 10:29
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Keir Fraser	09 May 2004 03:06
JHJE (Jan Holst Jensen)	10 May 2004 00:46

Subject:	Re: [Xen-devel] Xen on VMware - how to install ?
From:	Keir Fraser (Keir...@cl.cam.ac.uk)
Date:	05/09/2004 03:06:56 AM
List:	com.xensource.lists.xen-devel

Uh-oh. Sounds like a build-adventure :-). Since I've never built Xen before it would probably take quite some time for me to set this up. I think trying another version of Grub or another distro would probably be quicker for me.

Try the following two Xen images: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~kaf24/xen-normal.gz http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~kaf24/xen-loop.gz

These files are replacements for your current xen.gz -- they should be copied on top of it.

The first image will probably have the same problem as the one on the demo CD. If not then a bug has probably been fixed since the CD was released.

The second image may also crash, or it may hang. If the latter then teh problem is in GRUB.

/sbin/grub is version 0.93 (says so when I start it) on both the demo CD and in my VM. File sizes are identical: 196220 bytes. However, file date is Jan 25 2003 in my RedHat VM and Jun 25 2003 on the demo CD - different build ? I could copy grub from the demo CD and reinstall it in the boot sector, and see if that helps.

/sbin/grub isn't the bootloader itself. The main bootloader file is /boot/grub/stage2.

Which Linux distro have you used to run Xen on top of VMware ? The demo CD looks debianish, so is Debian Woody a fair guess ?

It's Red Hat -- probably version 9 (cat /etc/redhat-release).

-- Keir