Archive for November 23rd, 2011
Fedora 16 domUs – Update
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Xen on November 23, 2011
So, I’ve wiped my test system with the intention of doing a tutorial on installing F16 + Xen. As part of this, I looked into installing a F16 domU with virt-install. When I tried it previously, I ran into this bug, and I ended up having to vnc into the dom0 and use virt-viewer to […]
Fedora 16 dom0 – update
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Xen on November 23, 2011
I’m trying out F16 as a dom0 from the beginning. No upgrades from F15 this time. So far, it’s generally ok. The install (from the netinstall ISO) was straightforward. Only issue was that F16 strongly recommends that a BIOS boot partition be present. (Read: Requires it unless you pass a nogpt option to the kernel […]
Because this is worth repeating
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Xen on November 23, 2011
I could have sworn I did this a while ago. But I got the error “‘Out of memory’, “xc_dom_boot_mem_init: can’t allocate low memory for domain\n “” when I tried to do a virt-install today. The problem? I was installing a 64bit domU on a 32bit dom0. Which is a no-no. Didn’t realise until I found […]