It is possible to create a vda VBD disk instead xvda?
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Dear all:
I am trying to install a RHEL 8.4 from a kickstart ISO, that supports only /dev/sda and /dev/vda block devices only.
I see that the vistualised HD appear a /xvda block file. It is possible to create a /vda VBD instead?
Thank you in advance, Pablo.
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xvd{a,b,c,d…}is how the Linux PV driver is seeing the drive itself when you are using Xen. So you should probably tell RH upstream to fix that to also support this naming: it's normal normal it's not! -
May be it is possible to make some kind of "hard link"?
After installer started switch to another console Ctrl+Alt+F2,3,4,5 and try to make some kind of link %)ln /dev/xvda /dev/sda -
@olivierlambert Thank you.
Yes, in parallel, I am trying to talk to OS guys. It is hard to convince them, because the kickstart was designed to be installed on baremetal or under ESXi. I would like to work in XCP instead. I will do my best. -
As any open source project, if you explain your use case and you are here to help them the best you can, you can succeed
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@splastunov said in It is possible to create a vda VBD disk instead xvda?:
/dev/xvda /dev/sda
Hello colleague. I've tried, but I cannot pause kernel loading until installer fails with this message:
After this one, yes I can switch to another console, but cannot resume the installation.
Seems that I must try to open ISO, modify something inside the installation script and rebuild it.Thank you for your help anyway.
Pablo. -
@olivierlambert @splastunov
Finally, guy from OS R&D created a new iso for me with support for XCP-NG and it works perfectly.Thank you for your assistance.
BR, Pablo.
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Oh great! Can you tell us more? (I'm not sure to understand who did what)
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@olivierlambert
Yes of course.
I've contacted to the team that created such kickstart ISO, based in RedHat EL 8.4.
That kickstart looks for /dev/vda but with modifications, now I have an ISO that installs automátically into /dev/xvda.
That fits perfectly in XCP-NG schema and now I can continue with the product virtualization. -
Great news then!
