Pygrub & loading OpenSuse 11 PV DomUs at Xen 3.3 CentOS 5.2 Dom0 (all 64-bit)

Posted by dba477 on Sep 22, 2008 8:34 PM EDT
Oracle DBA Blog; By Boris Derzhavets
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Due to known issue attempt to virt-install OpenSuse 11 PV DomU at Xen 3.3 CentOS 5.2 Dom0 from nfs share fails immediately at startup. Approved procedure via Internet repositories for OpenSuse 10.3 requires internet connection speed at least 700 Kbit/sec to take reasonable time. OpenSuse 11.1 (with pygrub implemented) is due only in December 2008.However, pygrub coming along with current Xen Release 3.3(3.2.1) does allow to load OpenSuse 11 DomUs at CentOS 5.2 (RHEL 5.2) Dom0 with no problems.

I haven't made any testing for native Xen 3.1 pygrub coming with CentOS 5.X, but there is a good chance, that it would work as well. Schema shortly described bellow would never work vice versa unless OpenSuse 11.1 would have pygrub issue fixed. Per release notes for OpenSuse 11.1 looks like RH PV guests are supposed to run at OpenSuse 11.1 Dom0 via pygrub, e.g. vm-install for this guests would work via NFS shares, not only via Internet Repositories like it works at mean time

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