Apologies if this is a very basic question, but I''m just trying xen out. I have used the install script from xensource to download and install xen-3 for FC4. I have booted into dom0 using the kernel vmlinuz-2.6.12.6-xen3_7.1_fc4, and that''s all fine. When I go to create a guest, and edit the config file, I don''t appear to have a xenU kernel to point to in the config file. From what I understood, there should be a separate unpriviledged kernel to use for the guests, so where is it? If I try and do a "yum install kernel-xenU" it installs a xenU kernel for xen-2 (or so xen-debug.log tells me if I try and use it in the config file for creating a new domain). I may just be getting myself confused, so any help appreciated. Cheers Darren
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 10:16:13AM +0000, Darren Birkett wrote:> Apologies if this is a very basic question, but I''m just trying xen out. I > have used the install script from xensource to download and install xen-3 > for FC4.If you''re trying out, I would suggest to follow the guidelines and base your tests on the most recent beta version of FC5, test3. The instructions are available at: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraXenQuickstartFC5 There have been a lot of changes from the early FC4 and testing in the old version is likely to be probematic and not significant as a trial. Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat http://redhat.com/ veillard@redhat.com | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/
On 2/21/06, Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> wrote:> > > If you''re trying out, I would suggest to follow the guidelines and > base your tests on the most recent beta version of FC5, test3. The > instructions are available at: >I had already looked at fc5t2 a few days ago (didn''t realise t3 was already out) and attempted an anaconda install of a guest with no luck. I decided to go back to a more stable OS (FC4) with xen3, and try the more manual method of installing/configuring because I wanted to learn as much about the inner workings of xen as possible. looking at my previous fc5t2 install I''m still slightly confused about the lack of a xenU kernel. There is an FC5hypervisor kernel which dom0 uses to boot, but I still don''t see the domU kernel that I would use for guests. Am I missing something? Darren
The kernel for guests is named kernel-xen-guest. There is a command line alternative /usr/sbin/*xen*guest-install.py which you can use for installing guests. Shashin. Darren Birkett wrote:> > > On 2/21/06, *Daniel Veillard* <veillard@redhat.com > <mailto:veillard@redhat.com>> wrote: > > > If you''re trying out, I would suggest to follow the guidelines and > base your tests on the most recent beta version of FC5, test3. The > instructions are available at: > > > I had already looked at fc5t2 a few days ago (didn''t realise t3 was > already out) and attempted an anaconda install of a guest with no > luck. I decided to go back to a more stable OS (FC4) with xen3, and > try the more manual method of installing/configuring because I wanted > to learn as much about the inner workings of xen as possible. > looking at my previous fc5t2 install I''m still slightly confused about > the lack of a xenU kernel. There is an FC5hypervisor kernel which > dom0 uses to boot, but I still don''t see the domU kernel that I would > use for guests. Am I missing something? > > Darren > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >-- >Fedora-xen mailing list >Fedora-xen@redhat.com >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen > >-- EMEA Global Professional Services Red Hat Munich Tel: +49 (0)89 205071 210 FAX: +49 (0)89 205071 111 Mobile: +49 (0)173 320 0830