From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4288113881C for ; Thu, 24 Sep 2015 12:53:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4A00521C053; Thu, 24 Sep 2015 12:53:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qg0-f41.google.com (mail-qg0-f41.google.com [209.85.192.41]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 406D721C00B for ; Thu, 24 Sep 2015 12:53:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qgev79 with SMTP id v79so42891018qge.0 for ; Thu, 24 Sep 2015 05:53:07 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=fNncSJHKujPmBk3AN4j5a/pT7J9q12OSrQjmYybttJ8=; b=bm1mgNAnZWFQr4iNY39zPDvpk7H6C9JEBTF3IYiuD5I4RkYovV8UQCBLEQAAsJuSHU BGs9ZiNxAgx6Eb9knk+3DuAOttT58RXJx1qojtiXVylWfXfAE8wvjFPOrxUJudBTuJ6n 54VIPiU0lntIyvywSvTRtevuR4PJ3Ciiwf5Zm3l+IBwP3pDccCH5hYbzQBZcaWtdfTqw hR2QtkEygoNh+oz6nj2eEkfirot107eYcxkmhGkQtPjP+S0gov520wVyyotiVPforaIS qixUuyd9l3ZUXZJJfTukwULWH4PfrQDKb4SxrDNG48tpA9oxUhe6/W2gq7fFwuQeHj+c 1Y2A== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.140.196.193 with SMTP id r184mr44851634qha.77.1443099187421; Thu, 24 Sep 2015 05:53:07 -0700 (PDT) Sender: freemanrich@gmail.com Received: by 10.140.38.106 with HTTP; Thu, 24 Sep 2015 05:53:07 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <5603CAEB.2050709@gc-24.de> References: <5603CAEB.2050709@gc-24.de> Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 08:53:07 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: p8G25I-6skx0HcxAwrat43CCd2M Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] installing Gentoo as a xen guest From: Rich Freeman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: c7b42dba-5e98-4e99-99ed-c79c8215df4a X-Archives-Hash: 3e973c94615ebe61d8e6691f825fb835 On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 6:05 AM, hw wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm installing Gentoo as a xen PV guest. Do I need to install a bootloader > like grub, or should I rather just specify the kernel to boot in the > definition file of the guest? If I do the latter, what about the kernel > command line? > > Is there anything I should consider? The host is also running Gentoo. > You can do either. I suspect it would be easier to just use grub. I don't know if xen provides a way to provide a command-line, if not you could build a default command-line into your kernel. I haven't messed with it recently, but some of my docs on running Gentoo on EC2 might be useful, since EC2 is ultimately running xen guests. Other than using the right kernel settings for xen support in your guest there really isn't much needed to get it working with Gentoo. Most of my write-ups were about the Amazon process (creating disk images, configuring grub.cfg for Amazon's grub and device numbering, etc). -- Rich