Changeset 2318 for trunk/server/doc/install-xvm

Timestamp:

Sep 5, 2012, 11:41:51 PM (12 years ago)

Author:

ezyang

Message:

Notes for setting up XVM test server.

File:

• trunk/server/doc/install-xvm (modified) (2 diffs)

trunk/server/doc/install-xvm

@@ -35 +35 @@
 bet is to use the Netboot CD from the latest version of Fedora that
 XVM has (since XVM is sort of bad about keeping their boot CDs up to
-date.)
+date.)  Since you're doing an install CD, it's going to be an HVM.
 
 You will need VNC access to perform the installation process.  If you have
@@ -62 +62 @@
 scripts-root password.  We have a password in
 /mit/scripts/Private/scripts-test-passwd which we tend to use.
+
+We don't know how to convert to ParaVM yet, because latest Fedora
+uses Grub2 but XVM's bootloader doesn't understand how to read it
+(see also the Scripts patches we manually applied to our hosts.)
+
+3. Debugging
+------------
+
+Get dropped into dracut:#/ ?  Check for 'Warn' in dmesg (dmesg | grep Warn)
+and fix any problems that are stopping Dracut from proceeding.