SUSE 11 32Bit Hyper V Install

[tommypa]

I am very new to LINUX and I recently installed SUSE Enterprise Server 11. I installed it on a Hyper V virtual slice and then installed the Virtual Server Software inside SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Version 11. And when I try to boot to XEN SUSE Enterprise Server 11 - 2.6.27.19-5 I get to a point where it sits at "loading console font lat9w-16.psfu -m trivial GO:loadable" and it never moves on. I am guessing I need to boot into XEN instead of SUSE Linux Enterprise server because its running on Hyper V.

Any advise is much appreciated.

Tommy

[Mad Professor]

yes you need to boot the xen kernel from grub.

[tommypa]

Thanks for your speedy response. And excuse my ignorance but I have no idea how to do that.

[Mad Professor]

if you install grub as your boot loader it will appear when it first boots the drive.

It will give you a chance to interrupt the boot process to boot or edit a different kernel, select xen kernel and hit enter or "B" you will have to do it everytime you boot.

To make it permanent so you don't have to do the above.

You need modify /boot/grub/menu.lst and make the xen kernel to be the default.

At the top in menu.lst you can change the

default 1

to 0 or where ever the kernel option is. Like if it's the third item in the menu change it to 2.

save it.



I use nano as my editor because of it's quick and ease of use.

nano /boot/grub/menu.lst.

edit the options

ctrl+X to exit, be sure to answer Yes to overwrite the file.

Reboot to test.

[tommypa]

Thanks again for the info. So I need to boot into regular SUSE Enterprise server 11 and make the changes you suggested. Because I can't boot into XEN without getting that error I Initially posted. Why do you need to boot from grub? I guess I don't understand why I cant just boot right to XEN without getting that error.

I also attached a screen shot of the initial boot up screen that I am seeing. When I choose XEN I get that error. So I will boot to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 to attempt to make that change that you suggested. The worst part is the mouse doesn't work when I boot to that and it makes it nearly impossible to make changes.

Tommy

[Mad Professor]

Are you running opensuse in a vitural machine?
that might be why it won't boot.

Xen requires virtualization hardware, virtual machines like vmware and virtual box doesn't do this for guest O/S.

Host>Guest>GUEST running XEN doesn't work

Host>Guest works

Host running Xen > Guest works

Also this may be why your mouse doesn't work because the mouse integration of the VM software you are using is not enabled or not configured on the guest O/S.

[tommypa]

I am running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 on Microsofts Hyper V. Which is supported according to Microsoft.


I need to install Linux on my Hyper V Server. I have been having the worst time.

[Mad Professor]

I don't think you can run XEN as a guest on top of another.

But you can run multiple distro's of linux on XEN or Hyper Visor in your case.



What are you trying to achieve? I'm curious, I'm going to be running XEN and multi-O/S for compartmentalization and consolation of web services.

[tommypa]

I am running a Windows 2008 Server 64Bit running Hyper V. I want to install Linux on a Hyper V VM to run send mail. I have SUSE installed and I couldn't get the mouse to work or anything so I installed the virtualization tools in SUSE thinking it might fix the mouse. It didn't work and then I ran into this XEN issue. if I don't need XEN that is fine I just want a working Linux solution to run on my Hyper V server. I am just spinning my wheels right now and getting no where. Its very frustrating.

[Mad Professor]

Well if you were trying to fix the mouse issue you need to go to hyper V. and check to see if they supply a driver cd which would be iso, and mount it in Hyper V. run the install script in opensuse, opensuse will see it as cd media.

Vituralbox and Vmware have this.

check hyper V. docs to see how to setup opensuse or google.

You're pretty close, if you can't find anything your best bet is configure xorg.conf in /etc/X11 by hand.