Bug 135529

Summary:	provide installation image that can run in a Xen domain
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1	Reporter:	Berthold Gunreben <bg>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	E-mail List <yast2-maintainers>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:	Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity:	Enhancement
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	lslezak, mkraft
Version:	unspecified
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Hardware:	Other
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Description Berthold Gunreben 2005-11-25 10:30:31 UTC

the current initrd and kernel that provide the installer can not be used in a Xen guest, because kernel and modules don't support xen. To be able to run the installer directly in a guest, it would be helpful to have an additional kernel and initrd that may be rused for this purpose.

Comment 1 Ladislav Slezák 2005-11-25 13:20:57 UTC

You should use kernel from kernel-xen package. To obtain an installation initrd is not that simple - use package install-initrd. The package contains installation initrd which can be customized by /usr/sbin/mkinstallinitrd script. The script creates modified initrd which uses specified kernel modules.

This way it's used in the yast xen module. I can provide more details on request.