Virt-install&Virt-manager at Xen 4.0-rc8 (2.6.32.10 pvops) Dom0 on top Ubuntu Karmic Koala Server

Posted by dba477 on Mar 26, 2010 10:39 PM EDT
Xen Virtualization on Linux and Solaris; By Boris Derzhavets
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The final target of this post is to demonstrate how flexible is Ubuntu Karmic Koala Server environment. Build Xen 4.0-rc8 and the most recent stable pvops kernel 2.6.32.10 ( with DRM support). Loading Xen Instance followed by install Ubuntu’s Libvirt environment, providing utility virt-install for creating PV and HVM DomUs, virt-manager completely functional to manage any DomU been built via virt-install

Finally HVM image created by beta version Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx is utilized to bring up Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx PV DomU, regardless standard trick with “pygrub” due to Lucid grub2 notation set root=’(/dev/sda,1)’ instead of Karmic’s set root=(hd0,1) doesn’t work any longer. Xen’s 4.0-rc8 “pygrub” was not ready to parse such unexpectedness

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