[one-users] initrd issue

[William Voorsluys]

Hi,

I filled in correct default values and it worked fine.

Thank you,

William.

2008/7/15 Ruben S. Montero <rubensm at dacya.ucm.es>:
> Hi William,
>
>        These values come from this file:
> $ONE_LOCATION/etc/vmm_xen/vmm_xen.conf
>
> Here you can add default values for all the xen machines, so you do not
> need to write the attribute (kernel   = "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-xenU") in all
> your VM templates.
>
> If you want to get rid of the defaults just delete initrd from
> $ONE_LOCATION/etc/vmm_xen/vmm_xen.conf.
>
> Cheers
>
> Ruben
>
>
> On Monday 14 July 2008 14:03:57 William Voorsluys wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'd like to report a problem that may be considered a bug in the Xen
>> driver. The kernel I'm using for domU doesn't require a ramdisk since I
>> have compiled the kernel with all necessary drivers. So I removed this part
>> from the vm template, to look like this:
>>
>> OS = [
>>   kernel   = "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-xenU",
>>   root     = "sda1" ]
>> ]
>>
>> However, ONE inserts a default value that points to an nonexistent
>> file. This causes trouble when booting the VM.
>> To experiment without a ramdisk I commented the following lines in
>> XenDriver.cc
>>
>> // if ( initrd.empty() )
>> // {
>> //    get_default("OS","INITRD",initrd);
>> // }
>>
>> and it worked fine.
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> William.
>
>
>



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