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From: lee <lee@××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] installing Gentoo in a xen VM
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 20:39:54
Message-Id: 87fvcvyx6l.fsf@gulltop.yagibdah.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] installing Gentoo in a xen VM by Rich Freeman
1 Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> writes:
2
3 > On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 5:09 AM, lee <lee@××××××××.de> wrote:
4 >> Vladimir Romanov <blueboar2@×××××.com> writes:
5 >>
6 >>> Well, what's the problem? When i do this, then i just install debian, xen
7 >>> kernel, then create some config, download gentoo install cd, run it, and
8 >>> follow the handbook.
9 >>
10 >> How do you run the installer CD in a PV VM? It's not like you could
11 >> just boot it, or can you?
12 >>
13 >
14 > Correct. I don't believe our install CDs are xen-enabled. You would
15 > need to boot from another environment, or install the files from
16 > outside of the xen environment. When I'm installing Gentoo on ec2 now
17 > I typically just boot any convenient EMI, mount an EBS image, extract
18 > a stage3, then install/configure a xen-enabled kernel.
19
20 ec2? emi? ebs?
21
22 > I haven't done an EC2 install in a while but I do have a .config that
23 > used to work lying around. I believe most of the instructions are on
24 > my blog as well - probably one of the more visited pages as it is
25 > probably helpful for getting any distro working on EC2/Xen.
26 >
27 > --
28 > Rich
29 >
30 >
31 >
32
33 --
34 Again we must be afraid of speaking of daemons for fear that daemons
35 might swallow us. Finally, this fear has become reasonable.

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Re: [gentoo-user] installing Gentoo in a xen VM Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>