Rune Johan Andresen
2004-Jun-18 07:30 UTC
[Xen-devel] New to Xen - howto, distributions, kernels
Hi, I have never used Xen. I wonder how difficult it is to install it on a Linux box (x86). Can I just recompile the kernel on a Red Hat distribution (2.4) allready installed? Will this partition then be the "host" for all the guest OSes? Can I use the same kernel on all distributions? (that is: can I use the Xen kernel which is modified to run on Xen on all Linux distributions as guest: Debian, Red Hat, Suse etc.) Excuse me if this is the wrong questions on the the wrong forum. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by The 2004 JavaOne(SM) Conference Learn from the experts at JavaOne(SM), Sun''s Worldwide Java Developer Conference, June 28 - July 1 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA REGISTER AND SAVE! http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf Priority Code NWMGYKND _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xen-devel
Ian Pratt
2004-Jun-18 12:10 UTC
Re: [Xen-devel] New to Xen - howto, distributions, kernels
> Hi, I have never used Xen. I wonder how difficult it is to install it on a > Linux box (x86). Can I just recompile the kernel on a Red Hat distribution > (2.4) allready installed?Yes, you''ll need to copy xen.gz and vmlinuz-2.4.26-xen0 on to your /boot partition and add a new grub config entry. (See REAME.CD)> Will this partition then be the "host" for all > the guest OSes?Yes> Can I use the same kernel on all distributions? (that is: > can I use the Xen kernel which is modified to run on Xen on all Linux > distributions as guest: Debian, Red Hat, Suse etc.)Yes. Its possible that some installations might rely on things like ''devfs'' that aren''t compiled into the default build of Linux-xen, but you could enable these in the normal way (or just edit you /etc/fstab). Ian ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by The 2004 JavaOne(SM) Conference Learn from the experts at JavaOne(SM), Sun''s Worldwide Java Developer Conference, June 28 - July 1 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA REGISTER AND SAVE! http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf Priority Code NWMGYKND _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xen-devel