All, Just wanted to check one last time before letting this thread die.
I am curious if anyone has gotten CentOS 8 to work in a PV Xen environment. Thanks. <[email protected]> wrote: >All, > >I have successfully installed CentOS 7 on a PV environment, and have been >trying to see if I can can get a CentOS 8 install running. > >Hardware does not support virtualization extensions, hence the PV environment >and I cant do HVM for the install then migrate. > >My understanding is that PV support is in the kernel, and that the distro of >Linux shouldn't technically matter. But currently when trying to >"PXEBoot" using a CentOS 8 kernel and ram image I get a near instant >crash for an invalid kernel. > >I tried to get around the issue by using DOM0 kernel and Ram Disk for the >install (DOM0 is Debian 10), having the boot progress until it reaches the >following, looping ISCSI error: > >>[ OK ] Reached target Slices. >> Starting Create Static Device Nodes in /dev... >>[ OK ] Started iSCSI UserSpace I/O driver. >>[ OK ] Started Setup Virtual Console. >> Starting dracut cmdline hook... >>[ OK ] Started Apply Kernel Variables. >>[ OK ] Stopped iSCSI UserSpace I/O driver. >> Starting iSCSI UserSpace I/O driver... > >I have also tried the CentOS 7 kernel Ram Disk with the same results. > >I even tried installing CentOS 7 clean, then upgrading in place (by unofficial >and unsupported means) and was left with an error that pygrub couldnt find the >partition with the kernel. > >Is this is a bug, or is PV just not supported? Or am I doing something wrong? > >Config for the install is below: > >># Kernel paths for install >>#kernel = "/var/opt/xen/ISO_Store/Centos8PXEBoot/vmlinuz" >>kernel = "/vmlinuz" >>#ramdisk = "/var/opt/xen/ISO_Store/Centos8PXEBoot/initrd.img" >>ramdisk = "/initrd.img" >>extra="modules=loop,squashfs console=hvc0" >> >># Path to HDD and iso file >>disk = [ >> #'file:/vmdisk0,xvda,w' >> 'format=raw, vdev=xvda, access=w, >target=/dev/mapper/vg_1-virtualmachine', >> ] >> >>extra="ksdevice= >inst.repo=https://mirror.jaleco.com/centos/8.2.2004/isos/x86_64/ >nameserver=1.1.1.1" >> >># Network configuration >>vif = ['bridge=xenbr0'] >> >>#DomU Settings >>memory = 3072 >>name = "centos-8.2" > >Thank you to all. >_______________________________________________ >CentOS-virt mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt _______________________________________________ CentOS-virt mailing list [email protected] https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
