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On 24 September 2015 14:53:07 CEST, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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>On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 6:05 AM, hw <hw@×××××.de> wrote: |
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>> Hi, |
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>> I'm installing Gentoo as a xen PV guest. Do I need to install a |
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>bootloader |
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>> like grub, or should I rather just specify the kernel to boot in the |
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>> definition file of the guest? If I do the latter, what about the |
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>kernel |
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>> command line? |
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>> Is there anything I should consider? The host is also running |
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>Gentoo. |
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>You can do either. I suspect it would be easier to just use grub. I |
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>don't know if xen provides a way to provide a command-line, if not you |
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>could build a default command-line into your kernel. |
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For PV, grub is actually more work to get working. There is a config option for the commandline. |
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I will send one of mine later today. |
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>I haven't messed with it recently, but some of my docs on running |
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>Gentoo on EC2 might be useful, since EC2 is ultimately running xen |
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>guests. Other than using the right kernel settings for xen support in |
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>your guest there really isn't much needed to get it working with |
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>Gentoo. Most of my write-ups were about the Amazon process (creating |
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>disk images, configuring grub.cfg for Amazon's grub and device |
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>numbering, etc). |
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Does EC2 actually provide PV guests? |
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With PV, the guest knows it's a guest and communicates with Xen. Non-PV has an emulation layer (qemu) running on the host that hides the virtualisation from the guest. |
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Special drivers on the guest can help with performance, but isn't necessary to get it to work. |
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Joost |
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