I am trying to install a FC4 domain on my Xen FC5 system that has several FC5 domains already running well. I get through the install questions and then am told that my url is invalid. I thought it was my tree so I made another ... then tested that with a FC4 install on a separate box and it works fine. I don''t see any hints in the logs and if I switch to my FC5 tree the install takes off with out a problem. Can anyone point me to a tutorial or some reference for this.... I have googled around quite a bit and not found anything at this time...... Thanks all help is appreciated. E./
On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 14:41 +0900, Eredicator X wrote:> I am trying to install a FC4 domain on my Xen FC5 system that has several FC5 domains already running well. > > I get through the install questions and then am told that my url is invalid. I thought it was my tree so I made another ... then tested that with a FC4 install on a separate box and it works fine. I don''t see any hints in the logs and if I switch to my FC5 tree the install takes off with out a problem. > > Can anyone point me to a tutorial or some reference for this.... I have googled around quite a bit and not found anything at this time......I posted a similar question as well but with a slightly different view. I bet you''ll find that your build tree doesn''t have an images/xen/vmlinux or an images/xen/initrd.img (unless you''ve built them). Then there''s the problem that an FC4 tree doesn''t (usually) have a domU kernel either. If they were there, such as with Rawhide, then it still fails to start the install without any apparent clues in the log as far as I can see. At least that''s my experience. Anyone willing to describe the process to build the boot kernel and init ramdisk and a domU kernel for FC4? Anyone know why the boot kernel and init ramdisk image in the Rawhide tree doesn''t seem to work from FC5? Ian
I''m still a beginner in the world of Xen, but I did dive in pretty hard right away and learned a few good tricks. This page is a page of notes I took for myself for setting up exactly what you''re trying to setup, a FC4 domU on a FC5 dom0. http://mitopia.net/index.php/Xen_3.0.2_Setup Mine too was necessary to for my mailserver (Scalix) to work, and it works perfectly in this environment. I am still tweaking with the IP-Tables portion of the NAT networking, but it is working. Hope this can be of some help. Mito -----Original Message----- From: fedora-xen-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:fedora-xen-bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Eredicator X Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 1:42 AM To: fedora-xen@redhat.com Subject: [Fedora-xen] FC4 on a FC5 Xen System I am trying to install a FC4 domain on my Xen FC5 system that has several FC5 domains already running well. I get through the install questions and then am told that my url is invalid. I thought it was my tree so I made another ... then tested that with a FC4 install on a separate box and it works fine. I don''t see any hints in the logs and if I switch to my FC5 tree the install takes off with out a problem. Can anyone point me to a tutorial or some reference for this.... I have googled around quite a bit and not found anything at this time...... Thanks all help is appreciated. E./ -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen
Hi, On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 09:23 -0400, Mito wrote:> I''m still a beginner in the world of Xen, but I did dive in pretty hard > right away and learned a few good tricks. This page is a page of notes I > took for myself for setting up exactly what you''re trying to setup, a FC4 > domU on a FC5 dom0. > > http://mitopia.net/index.php/Xen_3.0.2_SetupI''m wondering why you took such a tortuous route to install xen-3.0.2 on FC5? FC5 comes with Xen already included, and # yum install xen would have installed it for you. FC5 updates currently carries xen-3.0.2 versions for both xen and kernel-xen*. Xen-3.0.2 won''t run the early, pre-3.0.0 version of Xen that FC4 used, so to run FC4 on a FC5 host you will need some helping hands; as you described, qemu is ideal for that. Cheers, Stephen
Hi, I know that FC5 comes with Xen already, and I know that I could have easily used yum to install it. The problem is, that using either of those options I was completely unable to get NAT networking to work, which in my specific case, was a must-have. So, I decided to torture myself, and came up with this process (which really isn''t that big of a deal, the most torture is the actual setup of the domU, the Xen and dom0 setup was pretty painless). When installing via source, all I had to do was make sure that the modules needed to run NAT were included in the kernel, and the NAT networking worked perfectly first try. Thus, why I kept my walkthrough, and why I have given it as a resource to those who have had the same problems. Hopefully it will help someone who had the same difficulties as I had. Mito -----Original Message----- From: Stephen C. Tweedie [mailto:sct@redhat.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 7:35 AM To: Mito Cc: ''Eredicator X''; fedora-xen@redhat.com; Stephen Tweedie Subject: RE: [Fedora-xen] FC4 on a FC5 Xen System Hi, On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 09:23 -0400, Mito wrote:> I''m still a beginner in the world of Xen, but I did dive in pretty hard > right away and learned a few good tricks. This page is a page of notes I > took for myself for setting up exactly what you''re trying to setup, a FC4 > domU on a FC5 dom0. > > http://mitopia.net/index.php/Xen_3.0.2_SetupI''m wondering why you took such a tortuous route to install xen-3.0.2 on FC5? FC5 comes with Xen already included, and # yum install xen would have installed it for you. FC5 updates currently carries xen-3.0.2 versions for both xen and kernel-xen*. Xen-3.0.2 won''t run the early, pre-3.0.0 version of Xen that FC4 used, so to run FC4 on a FC5 host you will need some helping hands; as you described, qemu is ideal for that. Cheers, Stephen
Hi, On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 08:43 -0400, Mito wrote:> So, I decided to torture myself, and came up with this process (which really > isn''t that big of a deal, the most torture is the actual setup of the domU, > the Xen and dom0 setup was pretty painless). When installing via source, > all I had to do was make sure that the modules needed to run NAT were > included in the kernel, and the NAT networking worked perfectly first try.What exactly did you need to add? We may be able to turn them on in the mainline kernel builds. --Stephen