Xen users - May 2006 - Problem in the very first step of installation of xen

Hi everybody,

I''m a Junior Undergraduate trying to install Xen on Fedora core 5
version of
Red Hat Linux.
I tried the command :
yum install kernel-xen0 to which I got the following messages:
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
base
[1/2]
updates
[2/2]
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Excluding Packages in global exclude list
Finished

Parsing package install arguments
No match for argument: kernel-xen0
Nothing to do

Then I checked my /boot/grub/grub.conf file  to look for any newly-created
entries in it.It looked like as follows:

# NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
#          root (hd0,0)
#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda3
#          initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
password --md5 $1$NL31TmWc$zoUG26/YXzbgrowa/005t/
title Fedora Core (2.6.16-1.2111_FC5)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.16-1.2111_FC5 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
        initrd /initrd-2.6.16-1.2111_FC5.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.16-1.2096_FC5)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.16-1.2096_FC5 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
        initrd /initrd-2.6.16-1.2096_FC5.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.16-1.2080_FC5)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.16-1.2080_FC5 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
        initrd /initrd-2.6.16-1.2080_FC5.img

I could not find any new entry for the xen hypervisor.Do I have to manually
edit this file.I have already edited the /etc/sysconfig/kernel file to set
the DEFAULT to kernel-xen0.

Please help me fix my problem.

Thanks in advance.
Sanjib


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On Tue May 30 2006 14:41, Sanjib Kumar Das wrote:
> Setting up Install Process
> Setting up repositories
> base
> [1/2]
> updates
> [2/2]
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> Excluding Packages in global exclude list
Check for "kernel-*" or the like in /etc/yum.conf.

jerry



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> Parsing package install arguments
> No match for argument: kernel-xen0
> Nothing to do
This means that yum did not find the package matching the name kernel-xen0
and therefore, the xen kernel was not installed at all.

You are using 2 repositories (base and updates), try to check if the package
is available there by issuing the command:

# yum search kernel-xen0
or simply
# yum search xen

I found the kernel-xen0 package at the default CORE repository (of a fresh
install FC5).

I suggest u check/add repositories for yum aswell.

On 5/31/06, Jerry Amundson <jerry@pbs.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue May 30 2006 14:41, Sanjib Kumar Das wrote:
> > Setting up Install Process
> > Setting up repositories
> > base
> > [1/2]
> > updates
> > [2/2]
> > Reading repository metadata in from local files
> > Excluding Packages in global exclude list
>
> Check for "kernel-*" or the like in /etc/yum.conf.
>
> jerry
>
>
>
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I am also using Xen on FC5. the procedure i followed is ;

1. yum install xen

2.yum install kernel-xen*

it worked fine for for me

if you are using the dvd of FC5 that came with the May issue of Linux for u,
it has the II cd wirh FC5 updates which contains kernel updates. try that it
contains Xen kernels

or try kernel-xen*

Kapil


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