[Pkg-xen-devel] Testing Xen on Lenny

[Ian Campbell]

On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 15:59 +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote:
> >> I am interested how I could manage such an installation. I don't want to
> >> go every time to the datacenter to install a new domU.
> > 
> > Why would you not install via ssh or similar?
> 
> How do I start an installation with the installer from a dom0?

Please see http://wiki.debian.org/Xen#InstallLenny basically you "xm
create" a domain which is configured to use the installer kernel and
ramdisk.

> What would you advice, using Etch as a dom0, or using Lenny with an Etch
> kernel?

I use Lenny with either an Etch kernel or one built from the xensource
linux-2.6.18-xen.hg tree.

Ian.

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