[sles-beta] Installation on Xenserver 6.2

[Simon Rowe]

On 24/04/14 17:22, James Taylor wrote:
> I realize this is not listed as a supported virtualization platform, but we have a significant number of customers that use that as their VM environment.
> I installed beta5 into a Xenserver 6.2 environment, and so far have not encountered any issues with the install process or initial access and configuration.
> Additionally, I ran an upgrade on a SLES11SP3 server on the same Xenserver host, and it was successful from initial testing.
> I did get an error during the boot loader install, which I suspect may have been related to the warning about the drive order naming, but it did not seem to cause the upgrade to fail.
> I failed to record the error when it was on the screen, so i will need to review the log to find out the specific text.
> The SLES11 server had KDE installed as the only GUI environment, so after the upgrade, I had a cli-only envrionment.
> I need to do additional testing to see what kind of issues I might encounter.
> -jt
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What template did you use? The SLES 11 one or an HVM one? SLES12 will 
not install PV because

1) pygrub doesn't support btrfs
2) Xen 4.1 pygrub doesn't handle grub2 submenus correctly

I've raised these issues as Service Requests,

Simon