[Nix-dev] Trouble installing NixOS on Citrix Xen

[Ben Booth]

> On Feb 10, 2016, at 09:22, Ben Booth <benwbooth at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm trying to install a NixOS VM onto our Citrix Xen server at work, but I'm running into several issues:
> 
> - Booting in HVM mode doesn't seem to work at all; the VM just stops on the BIOS screen
> 
> - Booting in PV mode using pygrub *almost* works, but for some reason Nix creates the /boot/grub/menu.lst file with two backslashes for each entry:
> The double backslash confuses pygrub, so for now I have to manually remove the extra backslash. I'm planning on filing a bug report for this, but does anyone know a workaround in the mean time?

I just submitted a pull request to fix the double backslash issue, and it got merged! So I guess it will show up in the next release.

> - The VM doesn't seem to recognize keyboard input from the XenCenter console tab, although SSH works. Is there a kernel module or initrd config I need to do to get the XenCenter console keyboard input to work?

For some reason the keyboard issue resolved itself! Not sure how, but I tried it again today and keyboard input works! Haven't tested HVM booting again yet.

Ben