we are currently trying to set up a virtualized environment in which we would like to use openSUSE 15.4 Leap as a Xen Guest (DomU) on a Debian 11 Host.
To do so I have found some resources which adress the matter, but may be a little bit dated:
- Building an RPM based (Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS) Xen Guest Root Filesystem using Rinse
- How to install a openSuSE domU on a Debian dom0
We aim to use xen-tools/xen-create-image command which requires a configuration file with appropriate settings applied. I am struggling to identify the vmlinuz* kernel file and initial RAM disk within the offline installation image to link it with the xen-tools.conf file. For example:
# Xen configuration for installing an openSuSE domU
# Kernel
kernel = '/var/lib/xen/images/vmlinuz-xen'
ramdisk = '/var/lib/xen/images/initrd-xen'
I believe this file to be correct one regarding initrd but I am unsure about the Kernel file (also found this resource about default-kernel superseding kernel-xen). Am I looking at the right objects? Which steps would I have to take in order to have them set up correctly for xen-tools? Are there any alternatives? (rinse lists opensuse-15.2 as supported distribution so that may be worth a try..)
/mnt/boot/x86_64/loader/initrd
/mnt/x86_64/kernel-default-5.14.21-150400.24.33.2.x86_64.rpm ?
I am very new to this so any suggestion is appreciated. Thank you!
Best regards,
Chris
