Generic Xen Image Boots :)
Posted by Stu @ 8:50 AM, Wed 13 Sep 06
Filed under: Announcements [A], Linux
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I promise I’ll find some time this evening to expand on Donnie’s post about bringing focus to Gentoo!
In the meantime, it didn’t take all that long to build & boot my first Xen virtual Gentoo machine. Most of the time was spent rebuilding everything with the ‘-mno-tls-direct-seg-refs’ CFLAG, which boosts performance inside the virtual machine.
Things Learned About Gentoo Inside Xen
- Make sure hotplug is stopped before mounting loopback filesystems, otherwise udevd opens files on there, preventing you from umounting the loopback filesystem when you’re done building your generic Gentoo image.
- With a minimal virtual machine configuration, you only get a single terminal inside the Xen virtual machine. Gentoo’s default inittab expects there to be six terminals.
Things Added To The TODO List
- Learn more about console devices with Xen
- Learn more about configuring udev and hotplug
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