Fedora xen - Feb 2006 - Howto build the different guest OS???

Hello group,
I have tested FC5 test 2 and xen. All ran very good. I want to take a
further test that runs on a different OS guest (i.e. running FC4 guest
OS on FC5 test2 hypervisor), but I didn''t know howto build the guest OS
yet.

Can you guys show me how? Or can you point me to somw urls that have
some instructions/hints/howto build the OS guests?

Thanks in advance for your help,
Best regards,

Danny Trinh
512-723-6445
CNE, MCSE, RHCE, LPIC1, A+
Senior Analyst
PG Enterprise Linux Solutions
Dell Inc.

On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 09:22:57AM -0600, Danny_Trinh@Dell.com
wrote:
> Hello group,
> I have tested FC5 test 2 and xen. All ran very good. I want to take a
> further test that runs on a different OS guest (i.e. running FC4 guest
> OS on FC5 test2 hypervisor), but I didn''t know howto build the
guest OS
> yet.
> 
> Can you guys show me how? Or can you point me to somw urls that have
> some instructions/hints/howto build the OS guests?
  For Fedora Core 4 I used the following:
    http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraXenQuickstart
then I mounted the fc4 disck in loopback and installed the guest 2.6.15
kernels in it (but there is a lot of dependancies mismatches, the only
goal was to have /lib/modules/ subtrees for xennet.ko network module).
Then I hand edited a /etc/xen/fc4 configuration file using the path
to those modules.
I don''t think there is really a clean way which will work in many cases
unfortunately, with paravirtualization you end up mixing things from
the Dom0 OS and from the DomU one.

Daniel

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If you want a guest image already prepared, check out http:// 
jailtime.org/.

Also http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraXenQuickstartFC5 has  
instructions for using /usr/sbin/xenguest-install.py.

On Feb 10, 2006, at 7:22 AM, Danny_Trinh@Dell.com wrote:
> Hello group,
> I have tested FC5 test 2 and xen. All ran very good. I want to take  
> a further test that runs on a different OS guest (i.e. running FC4  
> guest OS on FC5 test2 hypervisor), but I didn''t know howto build  
> the guest OS yet.
>
> Can you guys show me how? Or can you point me to somw urls that  
> have some instructions/hints/howto build the OS guests?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help,
> Best regards,
>
> Danny Trinh
> 512-723-6445
> CNE, MCSE, RHCE, LPIC1, A+
> Senior Analyst
> PG Enterprise Linux Solutions
> Dell Inc.
>
>
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On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 12:01 -0800, Adam Huda wrote:
> Also http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraXenQuickstartFC5
> has instructions for using /usr/sbin/xenguest-install.py.
But it uses FC5 anaconda and xen install image. It doesn''t seem like
good way how install the FC4 guest.

	Karel
> On Feb 10, 2006, at 7:22 AM, Danny_Trinh@Dell.com wrote:
> 
> > Hello group, 
> > I have tested FC5 test 2 and xen. All ran very good. I want to take
> > a further test that runs on a different OS guest (i.e. running FC4
> > guest OS on FC5 test2 hypervisor), but I didn''t know howto
build the
> > guest OS yet.

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