Virtualisation in Fedora status, jan 2005 The good news: - working Xen and kernel-xen0/U RPMs available in rawhide - grubby knows how to set up multiboot for the xen0 domain - people are starting to use the available RPMs - the network scripts now work in the presence of ipv6 - a Fedora project page on virtualisation is available: http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/virtualization/ - there is a HOWTO document, explaining how to set up Xen with Fedora http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraXenQuickstart Bugs & limitations: - X does not work on many systems, and appears to cause memory corruption on others - current xen0/U guest kernels are single CPU only - #146571 xen gets stuck at boot with "APIC error on CPU0" - #146575 xen interferes with X acceleration - #142046 XEN Graphical bugs and application instability in Xen dom... - #140847 X inside Xen only works when linux/libint10.a is moved TODO: - update to latest xen-unstable snapshot - apply the AGP patch, to try and remedy the X problems - build and test SMP xen0/U guest kernels - build and test xen and xen0/U kernels for x86-64 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xen-devel
[Rik == riel@redhat.com on Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:35:56 -0500 (EST)] Rik> there is a HOWTO document, explaining how to set up Xen Rik> with Fedora Rik> http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraXenQuickstart A neat invocation: yum --installroot=/mnt -y groupinstall Base is shown in this document, which reminds of the ease of debootstrap. In the next release of XenCD, I''ve got a full walkthrough of using debootstrap to create a live Debian domU in addition to the ttylinux domUs that are automatically created. I''d love to support the creation of Fedora rootfs''s entirely within XenCD as well. I can find no yum *.deb out there, so it looks like I''d need incorporate RPM debs, maybe Python 2.4, and make a yum *.deb to jury rig this together. This may be more work and QA than I''m up for right now, though it doesn''t look all that hard. So I''m looking for either a lighter way to install Fedora into a directory via a script, or possible help to integrate the yum package itself into XenCD, or a contributed script that can create a Fedora rootfs (written in either sh, Perl, or Python). Another approach might be to distributed a compressed rootfs on the CD, which I might do for Debian as well, but that would end up as a separate branch from the lean 32 Mb ISO we''ve got now. -- jared@wordzoo.com War is God''s way of teaching Americans geography. -Ambrose Bierce ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xen-devel
Does the Live CD contain the source corresponding to the working Xen system? Thanks, Dave Feustel ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xen-devel
[Dave == dfeustel@mindspring.com on Tue, 1 Feb 2005 13:34:35 -0500] Dave> Does the Live CD contain the source corresponding to the Dave> working Xen system? It does not, currently. The code is built inside the filesystem used for XenCD, inside /usr/local/src/xen, but then it deleted (rm -rf /usr/local/src/xen) for space reasons. There''s nothing special about the tree at all, it''s just a bk pull version with the ioemu build removed. There''s definitely a fatter release in the future (more rootfs''s), as there''s only so much I can demo on a 35 Mb ISO. So maybe the source can be left in that version. If you have a need or serious interest in having the Xen source left intact on the ISO, I can work to make that available. -- jared@wordzoo.com http://www.geekcode.com/geek.html -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCM/CS/B d s:++>+ a- C++(++++)$ ULBSH++++ P+++ L+++ E++(+++) W++++ N- !o !K w !O M V PS+++(-) PE++(--) Y+ PGP>++ t@ 5 X+ R>+ tv++>-- b>++ DI+ D- G e++ h- r++>+++ y+++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xen-devel
maybe i''m doing something wrong but it just does not seems to work for me. first it was complainign that it could not find pgp keys, then it would complain that var/cache/yum does not exists. comemnts? it is how i try to do it : rpm --root=/mnt/RHFC3 --import http://fedora.redhat.com/about/security/4F2A6FD2.txt rpm --root=/mnt/RHFC3 --import http://fedora.redhat.com/about/security/30C9ECF8.txt rpm --root=/mnt/RHFC3 --import http://fedora.redhat.com/about/security/1CDDBCA9.txt mkdir -p /mnt/RHFC3/var/cache/yum yum --installroot=/mnt/RHFC3 -y groupinstall Base current error is : [root@mtdew rpm]# yum --installroot=/mnt/RHFC3 -y groupinstall Base Setting up Group Process Setting up Repo: base Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: base [root@mtdew rpm]# cat /etc/redhat-release Fedora Core release 3 (Heidelberg) ideas ? On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Jared Rhine wrote:> [Rik == riel@redhat.com on Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:35:56 -0500 (EST)] > > Rik> there is a HOWTO document, explaining how to set up Xen > Rik> with Fedora > Rik> http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraXenQuickstart > > A neat invocation: > > yum --installroot=/mnt -y groupinstall Base > > is shown in this document, which reminds of the ease of debootstrap. > > In the next release of XenCD, I''ve got a full walkthrough of using > debootstrap to create a live Debian domU in addition to the ttylinux > domUs that are automatically created. > > I''d love to support the creation of Fedora rootfs''s entirely within > XenCD as well. I can find no yum *.deb out there, so it looks like > I''d need incorporate RPM debs, maybe Python 2.4, and make a yum *.deb > to jury rig this together. This may be more work and QA than I''m up > for right now, though it doesn''t look all that hard. > > So I''m looking for either a lighter way to install Fedora into a > directory via a script, or possible help to integrate the yum package > itself into XenCD, or a contributed script that can create a Fedora > rootfs (written in either sh, Perl, or Python). > > Another approach might be to distributed a compressed rootfs on the > CD, which I might do for Debian as well, but that would end up as a > separate branch from the lean 32 Mb ISO we''ve got now. > > -- jared@wordzoo.com > > War is God''s way of teaching Americans geography. -Ambrose Bierce > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting > Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time > by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. > Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > Xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xen-devel >------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xen-devel