[Pkg-ganeti-devel] Bug#624260: kvm: kernel inside guest support
micah anderson
micah at riseup.net
Sat Aug 20 13:35:33 UTC 2011
Hello,
On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 18:42:12 +0200, Iustin Pop <iustin at debian.org> wrote:
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> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 06:22:22PM -0400, micah anderson wrote:
> > Package: ganeti2
> > Version: 2.4.1-1
> > Severity: wishlist
> >
> > It seems like ganeti requires that you use a kernel external to the
> > guest, probably because that is the default mode of operation with
> > xen. However, on a kvm system, you can have the kernel inside of the
> > guest (as well as outside). There are situations where I would prefer to
> > run the kernel inside of the guest, and would like it if ganeti2
> > supported that setup.
>
> Hi,
>
> This is already possible, by simply not defining the kernel path. Per
> the man page:
>
> kernel_path
> Valid for the Xen PVM and KVM hypervisors.
>
> This option specifies the path (on the node) to the kernel to boot
> the instance with. Xen PVM instances always require this,
> while for KVM if this option is empty, it will cause the machine
> to load the kernel from its disks.
>
> I hope that is clear enough, if not please suggest a better wording.
It is! I managed to not see that. I'm closing the bug, thanks!
micah
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