Make a copy of the kernel so that building a new initrd/kernel pair is a manual affair on Centos 5:

cp /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-53.1.4.el5xen /boot/vmlinuz-2.6-xen

Building a useful initrd for Xen on FC6 http://www.mail-archive.com/fedora-xen@redhat.com/msg00202.html

Same thing on Centos 5:

echo "/dev/sda1  /  ext3    defaults 1 1" > /boot/xenfstab

mkinitrd -v -f --with=xennet --builtin=aic7xxx --builtin=serverworks --preload=xenblk --omit-raid-modules --omit-lvm-modules --fstab=/boot/xenfstab /boot/initrd-2.6-xen.img 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5xen

Get the VC, xm console to work in Centos 4 when hosted on Centos 5 Xen, add the following to /etc/inittab:

co:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty xvc0 9600 vt100-nav

Basic Xen Config File:

kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6-xen"
ramdisk = "/boot/initrd-2.6-xen.img"
memory = 2000
name = "server4"
vcpus = 2
vif = [ '' ]
disk = [ 'phy:/dev/vg00/server4,sda1,w','phy:/dev/vg00/server4_swap,sda2,w']
root = "/dev/sda1 ro"
#dhcp="dhcp"
#extra = "1"

Convert Vmware to Xen

http://ian.blenke.com/xen/vmdk/

last edited 2007-12-19 01:02:25 by MichaelBest