XENHVM and XenServer 6.2

[Adam McDougall]

On 08/11/13 05:30, Karl Pielorz wrote:
>
> --On 10 August 2013 19:01:38 +0400 Alexey Degtyarev 
> <alexey at renatasystems.org> wrote:
>
>> Try to remove DVD device from problem virtual machine:
>>
>> # xe vm-list params=uuid name-label=<your-vm-name>
>>
>> # xe vbd-list empty=true params=uuid vm-uuid=<your-vm-UUID>
>>
>> # xe vbd-destroy uuid=<vbd-UUID>
>
> Presumably / obviously removing the DVD will stop you booting a .ISO 
> image? - I just built a 9.1-Beta2 release .ISO image w/XENHVM kernel - 
> and ran into the same issue booting that .ISO :(
>
> Can you boot a GENERIC .ISO, use that to do the install, then switch 
> to XENHVM kernel (i.e. once installed and you don't need to boot off 
> of ISO)? [first time with XEN]
>
>
> -Karl
For now, yes, but there was talk of enabling XENHVM in GENERIC which would
make this really hard without a boot loader switch to turn XENHVM off.