[Fedora-xen] Newby Help

[Chris Lalancette]

Walter Coole wrote:
> cat football.cfg
> kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-1.3002.fc6xen"
> memory = 256
> name = "football"
> vif = [ '' ]
> dhcp = "dhcp"
> disk = ['file://xen/fedora/football.img,sda1,w',
> 'file://xen/fedora/football.swap,sda2,w']

This is wrong.  For paravirtualized guests, you want to use xvda1 and
xvda2.  Also, you want to use tap:aio, otherwise you will corrupt your
guest disks if the dom0 crashes.  So your disk line really wants to look
like:

disk =
['tap:aio:/xen/fedora/football.img,xvda1,w','tap:aio:/xen/fedora/football.swap,xvda2,w']

It might be easier, though, just to use virt-install and/or virt-manager
to install your guests; they take care of these details for you.

Chris Lalancette