Bug 135529 - provide installation image that can run in a Xen domain
Summary: provide installation image that can run in a Xen domain
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
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Product: SUSE Linux 10.1
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Installation (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other Other
: P5 - None : Enhancement (vote)
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Assignee: E-mail List
QA Contact: Klaus Kämpf
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Reported: 2005-11-25 10:30 UTC by Berthold Gunreben
Modified: 2005-11-25 13:23 UTC (History)
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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.