[CentOS-virt] Has anyone been able to start a Fedora 16 VM in Xen PV?

[S.Tindall]

On Mon, 2012-01-09 at 18:56 -0500, R P Herrold wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jan 2012, Norman Gaywood wrote:
> 
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=746602
> >
> > (pygrub cannot start F16 PV guests (GPT partition) under Xen 4.1.1)
> 
> why would one use GPT for a domU?  seems like gross overkill
> 
> -- Russ herrold

There are a bunch of grub2-related issues associated with F16 anaconda
and one of the easiest ways to deal with them is to use gpt. There is a
nogpt kernel option that may help, but I have not tried it.

Also, if left to itself, F16 anaconda will (apparently) use gpt.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F16_bugs

"Fedora 16 uses the newer GPT disk label format, when formatting an
entire disk during installation."

I am running a gpt F16 guest under rhel6/kvm without issues.

Steve