Re: [atomic-devel] Atomic Host on Xen PV VM

[Dusty Mabe <dusty dustymabe com>]

On 1/22/19 1:35 PM, mabi wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am still trying and very interested into managing to run CentOS Atomic Host with Xen using paravirtualization.
> 
> What I did for now is to install in a Xen HVM VM using the Atomic Host ISO file and now I am trying to convert this HVM into a PV using pygrub to boot the VM. Unfortunately it does not wanto to boot. Pygrub complains that it can't find the partition with the Linux kernel:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/lib/xen-4.8/bin/pygrub", line 882, in <module>
>     raise RuntimeError, "Unable to find partition containing kernel"
> RuntimeError: Unable to find partition containing kernel
> 
> Anyone has any idea? or is it simply not possible to run Atomic Host on a Xen PV VM?
> 

Some tools won't work on Atomic Host because the filesystem set up is different
than traditional systems. 

Could you not download one of the cloud images that are provide and boot it? I believe it runs
on Amazon AWS PV, but I can't be fur sure. 

Dusty