People,
I want to test out a bunch of LiveCD distributions - is it possible to set these up as guests under Xen so I don't have to shut down my main machine?
Thanks,
Phil.
On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 03:50:14 +1000 Philip Rhoades phil@pricom.com.au wrote:
I want to test out a bunch of LiveCD distributions - is it possible to set these up as guests under Xen so I don't have to shut down my main machine?
If your hardware supports HVM installs, then just tell virt-manager you are going to install a new HVM virtual machine and the install media is the live cd image. With no HVM support, I don't know - some live CDs might run paravirt, but I have no specific knowledge of such a beast.
Philip Rhoades wrote:
People,
I want to test out a bunch of LiveCD distributions - is it possible to set these up as guests under Xen so I don't have to shut down my main machine?
Thanks,
Phil.
You should be able to launch it via virsh or virt-manager with no issues.
-- bk
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 03:50:14AM +1000, Philip Rhoades wrote:
I want to test out a bunch of LiveCD distributions - is it possible to set these up as guests under Xen so I don't have to shut down my main machine?
Look at the man page for 'virt-install' - in the 'Examples' section it shows how to run a LiveCD.
Regards, Daniel
Philip Rhoades wrote:
People,
I want to test out a bunch of LiveCD distributions - is it possible to set these up as guests under Xen so I don't have to shut down my main machine?
If you have HVM, probably yes (although you might have better luck with kvm), otherwise it requires paravirt support in the Live-CD, which moves it to the "it depends" column.
I have done all my testing using KVM, due to the dubious state of xen WRT FC{9,10}. And frankly I find it as easy to use unless I have a bunch of VMs on a single host.
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