Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone successful in paravirtualizing Gentoo on XenServer?

[Pandu Poluan]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 16:22, Joost Roeleveld <joost@××××××××.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 March 2011 15:28:56 Pandu Poluan wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 21:28, J. Roeleveld <joost@××××××××.org> wrote:
>> > On Thu, March 24, 2011 2:10 pm, Pandu Poluan wrote:
>> >> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 19:57, J. Roeleveld <joost@××××××××.org> wrote:
>> >>> On Thu, March 24, 2011 1:19 pm, Pandu Poluan wrote:
>> >>>> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 18:21, J. Roeleveld <joost@××××××××.org> wrote:
>> >>>>> On Thu, March 24, 2011 10:36 am, Pandu Poluan wrote:
>> >>>>>> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 15:32, J. Roeleveld
>> >>>>>> <joost@××××××××.org>
>>
>> >>>>>> wrote:
>> [-- SuperSnip --]
>>
>> Okay, problem solved.
>>
>> Apparently it was XenCenter that's buggy, and after the first time of
>> booting a PV-enabled VM, I must close and re-open XenCenter.
>
> Did you raise this with the developers for XenCenter?
>

The Citrix guys said: "It's a well-known glitch" >.<

Anyways, as long as the XenServer hypervisor works fine and stably, I
can live with that.

>> Meh. And to think that I had recompiled Gentoo for perhaps 20-30 times >.<
>
> Good learning experience :)
>
>> Oh well. All's well that ends well. At least I'm now really intimate
>> with how Gentoo works :-P
>
> Yes, and you can probably do the installation blindfolded now? :)
>

LOL

I've reached the point of scripting the installation so it can be
driven automatically by AutoHotkey :P

And even write myself a XenServer script to easily modify the pygrub
parameters: http://pastebin.com/hTsxi4QM

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> Joost
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