Hiya, I''d like to install RHEL4 inside a FC5 or FC6 Dom0 to do some Squid development and regression testing on. Has anyone done this? Any pointers to what I should be looking at doing? Bootstrapping Debian under Debian wasn''t too hard - just debootstrap into a new filesystem, then start domU up to finish configuration. I''ve had absolutely no luck with the FC5 and FC6 supplied xenguest-install python stuff to bootstrap PVM guests. Thanks, Adrian
Adrian Chadd wrote:> Hiya, > > I''d like to install RHEL4 inside a FC5 or FC6 Dom0 to do some Squid development > and regression testing on. Has anyone done this? Any pointers to what I should be > looking at doing? > > Bootstrapping Debian under Debian wasn''t too hard - just debootstrap into a new > filesystem, then start domU up to finish configuration. I''ve had absolutely no luck > with the FC5 and FC6 supplied xenguest-install python stuff to bootstrap PVM guests. > > Thanks, > > > > Adrian > > -- > Fedora-xen mailing list > Fedora-xen@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen >You will find some good documentation @ http://people.redhat.com/~riel/RHEL4-Xen-HOWTO If you do not have a processor with the VT extension, you can always use qemu to install RHEL4 in FV. As written in the doc, you will need to use the kernel from http://people.redhat.com/~jbaron/rhel4/RPMS.kernel/ Have fun, Mono
Am Mittwoch, den 22.11.2006, 17:06 +0100 schrieb Monolive:> Adrian Chadd wrote: > > Hiya, > > > > I''d like to install RHEL4 inside a FC5 or FC6 Dom0 to do some Squid development > > and regression testing on. Has anyone done this? Any pointers to what I should be > > looking at doing?[...]> You will find some good documentation @ > http://people.redhat.com/~riel/RHEL4-Xen-HOWTO > > If you do not have a processor with the VT extension, you can always use > qemu to install RHEL4 in FV.AFAIK, it''s no longer possible to use a FV RHEL4 image which has been created with the latest version of QEMU. Reason is, that QEMU now uses Copy-on-Write disk images. -- Thorsten Scherf <tscherf@redhat.com> Red Hat GmbH
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Thorsten Scherf wrote:> > If you do not have a processor with the VT extension, you can always use > > qemu to install RHEL4 in FV. > > AFAIK, it''s no longer possible to use a FV RHEL4 image which has been > created with the latest version of QEMU. Reason is, that QEMU now uses > Copy-on-Write disk images.eh? Even if that was an issue (I am running qemu fine without COW files), then you can just boot the image with qemu, nfs mount your new image file from the xen server, copy the files onto the image, unmount, and throw away the qemu image. Paul -- Building and integrating Virtual Private Networks with Openswan: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1904811256/104-3099591-2946327?n=283155
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 08:41:13AM +0100, Thorsten Scherf wrote:> Am Mittwoch, den 22.11.2006, 17:06 +0100 schrieb Monolive: > > Adrian Chadd wrote: > > > Hiya, > > > > > > I''d like to install RHEL4 inside a FC5 or FC6 Dom0 to do some Squid development > > > and regression testing on. Has anyone done this? Any pointers to what I should be > > > looking at doing? > > [...] > > > You will find some good documentation @ > > http://people.redhat.com/~riel/RHEL4-Xen-HOWTO > > > > If you do not have a processor with the VT extension, you can always use > > qemu to install RHEL4 in FV. > > AFAIK, it''s no longer possible to use a FV RHEL4 image which has been > created with the latest version of QEMU. Reason is, that QEMU now uses > Copy-on-Write disk images.Well, QEMU doesn''t use any particular type of image by default - that''s entirely up to whomever creates the disk image. QEMU has about 6 different kinds of images it is able to use. You can trivially convert between disk image formats using QEMU''s own tool set, eg qemu-img convert -f qcow source.img -O raw dest.img will convert from ''qcow'' format to ''raw'' - the latter being the format Xen wants. Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=|
Am Dienstag, den 28.11.2006, 15:31 +0000 schrieb Daniel P. Berrange:> On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 08:41:13AM +0100, Thorsten Scherf wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, den 22.11.2006, 17:06 +0100 schrieb Monolive: > > > Adrian Chadd wrote: > > > > Hiya, > > > > > > > > I''d like to install RHEL4 inside a FC5 or FC6 Dom0 to do some Squid development > > > > and regression testing on. Has anyone done this? Any pointers to what I should be > > > > looking at doing? > > > > [...] > > > > > You will find some good documentation @ > > > http://people.redhat.com/~riel/RHEL4-Xen-HOWTO > > > > > > If you do not have a processor with the VT extension, you can always use > > > qemu to install RHEL4 in FV. > > > > AFAIK, it''s no longer possible to use a FV RHEL4 image which has been > > created with the latest version of QEMU. Reason is, that QEMU now uses > > Copy-on-Write disk images. > > Well, QEMU doesn''t use any particular type of image by default - that''s > entirely up to whomever creates the disk image. QEMU has about 6 different > kinds of images it is able to use. > > You can trivially convert between disk image formats using QEMU''s own tool > set, eg > > qemu-img convert -f qcow source.img -O raw dest.img > > will convert from ''qcow'' format to ''raw'' - the latter being the format Xen > wants.Ah. That''s the trick. :) Thanks, Thorsten -- Thorsten Scherf, RHCE, RHCA, RHCSS Office : ++49 2064 485 321 Red Hat GLS EMEA Fax : ++49 2064 470 564 GPG KEY-ID: 3B9280BB Mobile : ++49 172 61 32 548