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On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 12:46 PM, hw <hw@×××××××××××××××××××××.de> wrote: |
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> Am 14.07.2015 um 20:56 schrieb hydra: |
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> Actually PV guests are not that hard at all. |
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> Well, how do you do that? Soon I want to do some Gentoo installations on |
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> this server. Can I just start with HVM and switch over to PV once the |
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> installation is done? |
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From a running system lvm partitions are created for the virtual machine, |
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then you mount those partitions, unpack stage3 on them, chroot and follow |
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the same way as with installing a normal machine. You need to enable this |
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when compiling the kernel. |
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> However, you don't have |
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>> hvm/qemu enabled so that's why your HVM guests won't start up. |
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> Indeed that was the problem. Once I found that out, I finally was able to |
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> get it to work. It's quite frustrating when you follow the documentation |
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> and yet things just don't work for unknown reasons. |
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Maybe try to modify the wiki for others to know? |
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