Trisquel Installer (debian-installer) for Trisquel installation on Xen as PV guest/DomU
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Hello all,
I actually use various systems as DomU on Xen and I primary like the
Debian like distributions. I would like to switch to a system which has
more actual packages than Debian stable and thought that Ubuntu is the
way of go. In the last time I really don't like the new ways of
Canonical and so I would like to migrate the Ubuntu systems to Trisquel.
Is there a Xen bootimage for the Trisquel Installer (debian-installer)?
Ubuntu and Debian all have them available on there repository servers
but I couldn't find something. I know that I also could install a PV
guest on another way but I think the installer is the most clean way.
Hope that someone can help me.
Best Regards
P.S. Sorry for my bad english
Hey there,
I am afraid there is no Xen-specific bootimage for booting up a DomU. Is your host capable for full virtualisation ? I would go the standard installation approach (booting up the standard Trisquel ISO) as you normally would with KVM, Qemu or VirtualBox. Then you could try to grab a Xen-adapted kernel from linux-libre:
http://www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/selibre/linux-libre/
The worst scenario I could imagine is re-compile a Xen-adapted kernel for your set up Xen DomU running Trisquel.
In general, if your host is new enough to support full hardware virtualisation (most AMDs / Intels are today), then I would stay away from any special Xen-agnostic kernel.
To my best knowledge a Xen-agnostic kernel for the DomU makes mostly sense if you either want maximum performance and/or your host does not provide full hardware virtualisation, which means you have to fall back on para-virtualisation.
HTH,
Holger
>if your host is new enough to support full hardware virtualisation
If it is, this will give you some output
grep -E 'svm|vmx' /proc/cpuinfo
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