On 27/02/16 01:41, Scot P. Floess wrote:> > From George's original email, I had to: > > * Install centos-release-xen from centos-extras > > Then a yum update followed by a yum install xen. > > That worked for me... >i had to do something similar, but my question is - one cant run xen without the kernel, so why not have the xen package require the xen kernel as a prereq ? regards, -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc
On 28/02/16 00:04, Karanbir Singh wrote:> i had to do something similar, but my question is - one cant run xen > without the kernel, so why not have the xen package require the xen > kernel as a prereq ?You can run Xen on any Xen dom0-enabled kernel. While the stock CentOS kernel does not qualify as such there are kernels available for CentOS other than the Xen4CentOS kernel which do, such as kernel-ml from elrepo. To require the Xen4CentOS kernel would cause issues if someone wanted to use a different dom0-enabled kernel. Peter
On Sat, 27 Feb 2016, Karanbir Singh wrote:> On 27/02/16 01:41, Scot P. Floess wrote: >> >> From George's original email, I had to: >> >> * Install centos-release-xen from centos-extras >> >> Then a yum update followed by a yum install xen. >> >> That worked for me... >> > > i had to do something similar, but my question is - one cant run xen > without the kernel, so why not have the xen package require the xen > kernel as a prereq ? > > regards, > > > -- > Karanbir Singh > +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh > GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-virt mailing list > CentOS-virt at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt >Scot P. Floess RHCT (Certificate Number 605010084735240) Chief Architect FlossWare http://sourceforge.net/projects/flossware http://flossware.sourceforge.net https://github.com/organizations/FlossWare
Hit the send key before actually typing anything :( Was going to say - ah OK didn't understand your original question. I'm not entirely sure - I just followed directions :) However, you ask a reasonable question. On Sat, 27 Feb 2016, Karanbir Singh wrote:> On 27/02/16 01:41, Scot P. Floess wrote: >> >> From George's original email, I had to: >> >> * Install centos-release-xen from centos-extras >> >> Then a yum update followed by a yum install xen. >> >> That worked for me... >> > > i had to do something similar, but my question is - one cant run xen > without the kernel, so why not have the xen package require the xen > kernel as a prereq ? > > regards, > > > -- > Karanbir Singh > +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh > GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-virt mailing list > CentOS-virt at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt >Scot P. Floess RHCT (Certificate Number 605010084735240) Chief Architect FlossWare http://sourceforge.net/projects/flossware http://flossware.sourceforge.net https://github.com/organizations/FlossWare
On Sat, 27 Feb 2016 13:20, Scot P. Floess wrote:> > Hit the send key before actually typing anything :( > > Was going to say - ah OK didn't understand your original question. I'm not > entirely sure - I just followed directions :) However, you ask a reasonable > question. > > On Sat, 27 Feb 2016, Karanbir Singh wrote: > >> On 27/02/16 01:41, Scot P. Floess wrote: >> > >> > From George's original email, I had to: >> > >> > * Install centos-release-xen from centos-extras >> > >> > Then a yum update followed by a yum install xen. >> > >> > That worked for me... >> > >> >> i had to do something similar, but my question is - one cant run xen >> without the kernel, so why not have the xen package require the xen >> kernel as a prereq ?IMHO, the best way to solve this would a additional line in the spec-file: "Provide: kernel-dom0" for those kernel that are provide this functionality. Then the xen-packages could "Require: kernel-dom0" no matter which way the kernel functionality came to be. Maybe ask even across distros for such a implemention, to get a more coherent experience for xen. Have a nice weekend, - Yamaban.