Hi, I am attempting to install Xen on a CentOS 5.x 64-bit host. In the source tarball I ran make dist, and then the install.sh. However, I seem to be missing things like virt-install. How do I get these extra tools etc.? I would like to have a full install basically (all tools). Regards, Alan _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Hi, I am attempting to install Xen on a CentOS 5.x 64-bit host. In the source tarball I ran make dist, and then the install.sh. However, I seem to be missing things like virt-install. How do I get these extra tools etc.? I would like to have a full install basically (all tools). Regards, Alan _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Hi Alan, I recently installed Xen 3.0 on a Centos5.2 64 bit host using netinstall. You can do the following to get it right the first time itself. 1. Download Centos5.2 x86_64 netinstall iso image (8 MB) and burn it on a CD 2. Reboot machine with CD in place. 3. Follow installation instructions for GUI and remove CD. 4. Make sure you select Virtualization package offered by Centos. It has all the necessary virt packages like virt-manager, libvirt, kernel-xen. Thanks & Regards, Siddharth Wagh ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Many of life''s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Alan <alan@tdknights.com> wrote:> Hi, > > I am attempting to install Xen on a CentOS 5.x 64-bit host. > > In the source tarball I ran make dist, and then the install.sh. > > However, I seem to be missing things like virt-install. > > How do I get these extra tools etc.? I would like to have a full install > basically (all tools). > > Regards, > Alan > > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-users mailing list > Xen-users@lists.xensource.com > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users >_______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Hi Alan, Any reason not to use the CentOS Xen packages? I do seem to recall the RHEL 5 version of Xen for x86_64 being classified as for testing purposes rather than stable / supported, so maybe that is your reason? virt-install, virt-manager, etc are provided in CentOS / RHEL packages and are not part of Xen. You can install them from the CentOS repositories but - and I''m going on ancient memories here - as I recall they are somewhat linked to also installing the Xen RPMs from the repositories, so doing mix & match with the packaged virt-* and your source install of Xen could also be tricky. If you don''t want to go down that route, I guess the alternative would be to download the source versions of virt-* and friends and install them manually? Not so appealing, I''ll admit... Cheers, Mark On Tuesday 24 February 2009 15:21:10 Alan wrote:> Hi, > > I am attempting to install Xen on a CentOS 5.x 64-bit host. > > In the source tarball I ran make dist, and then the install.sh. > > However, I seem to be missing things like virt-install. > > How do I get these extra tools etc.? I would like to have a full install > basically (all tools). > > Regards, > Alan > > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-users mailing list > Xen-users@lists.xensource.com > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users_______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Alan wrote:> Hi, > > I am attempting to install Xen on a CentOS 5.x 64-bit host. > > In the source tarball I ran make dist, and then the install.sh. > > However, I seem to be missing things like virt-install. > > How do I get these extra tools etc.? I would like to have a full install > basically (all tools). > > Regards, > AlanCentOS 5.x only has Xen 3.0.3 prebuilt. You can use the Gitco repo if you want a more updated version without building from source. Put this file in your /etc/yum.repos.d http://www.gitco.de/repo/CentOS5-GITCO_x86_64.repo After that, just do a yum install xen xen-libs xen-devel libvirt libvirt-devel libvirt-python python-virtinst virt-manager The -devel packages are obviously optional... as is virt-manager, the GUI for libvirt. Currently Gitco is at Xen 3.3.1 You can get more info from the main repo page... http://www.gitco.de/repo/ -- Ryan Duff web: http://www.ryanduff.net aim: ryancduff twitter: ryancduff _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
-----Original Message----- From: xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com [mailto:xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com] On Behalf Of Ryan Duff Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 12:27 PM To: xen-users@lists.xensource.com Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Installing Xen Alan wrote:> Hi, > > I am attempting to install Xen on a CentOS 5.x 64-bit host. > > In the source tarball I ran make dist, and then the install.sh. > > However, I seem to be missing things like virt-install. > > How do I get these extra tools etc.? I would like to have a full install > basically (all tools). > > Regards, > AlanCentOS 5.x only has Xen 3.0.3 prebuilt. You can use the Gitco repo if you want a more updated version without building from source. Put this file in your /etc/yum.repos.d http://www.gitco.de/repo/CentOS5-GITCO_x86_64.repo After that, just do a yum install xen xen-libs xen-devel libvirt libvirt-devel libvirt-python python-virtinst virt-manager The -devel packages are obviously optional... as is virt-manager, the GUI for libvirt. Currently Gitco is at Xen 3.3.1 You can get more info from the main repo page... http://www.gitco.de/repo/ -- Ryan Duff web: http://www.ryanduff.net aim: ryancduff twitter: ryancduff _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users Hi Ryan, CentOSs 5.2 says that it is Xen 3.0.3 but it is really 3.1.2.. this is from xm dmesg with default CentOS xen packages installed __ __ \ \/ /___ _ __ \ // _ \ \047_ \ / \ __/ | | | /_/\_\___|_| |_| _____ _ ____ ___ ____ _ ____ ____ _ ____ |___ / / | |___ \ / _ \___ \ / | |___ \|___ \ ___| | ___| |_ \ | | __) |_| (_) |__) | | | __) | __) | / _ \ |___ \ ___) || |_ / __/|__\__, / __/ _| |_ / __/ / __/ | __/ |___) | |____(_)_(_)_____| /_/_____(_)_(_)_____|_____(_)___|_|____/ Just FYI. Tait _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Hi Siddharth, Would you have a little list of the sources I would need to get to compile everything that the rpm set provides? Regards, Alan _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
I dont exactly understand by what you mean. Follow this blog: http://www.tonybhimani.com/2007/12/20/centos-51-network-install-instructions/ For the HTTP setup window, I used the given mirror: http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/centos/5.2/os/x86_64/ Once the images are downloaded, and installation begins, make sure you select ''Virtualization packages''. It will download all the packages you need. Thanks & Regards, Siddharth Wagh ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Many of life''s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Alan <alan@madrooster.com> wrote:> Hi Siddharth, > > > > Would you have a little list of the sources I would need to get to compile > everything that the rpm set provides? > > > > Regards, > > Alan > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-users mailing list > Xen-users@lists.xensource.com > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users >_______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Hi Siddharth, I meant the source tarballs that I would need to replicate a Xen install as if it was a rpm install using yum etc. Regards, Alan From: Siddharth Wagh [mailto:siddharth.wagh@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, 27 February 2009 8:44 AM To: Alan Lam Cc: xen-users Subject: Re: [Xen-users] RE: Installing Xen I dont exactly understand by what you mean. Follow this blog: http://www.tonybhimani.com/2007/12/20/centos-51-network-install-instruct ions/ For the HTTP setup window, I used the given mirror: http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/centos/5.2/os/x86_64/ Once the images are downloaded, and installation begins, make sure you select ''Virtualization packages''. It will download all the packages you need. Thanks & Regards, Siddharth Wagh ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------- Many of life''s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------- On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Alan <alan@madrooster.com> wrote: Hi Siddharth, Would you have a little list of the sources I would need to get to compile everything that the rpm set provides? Regards, Alan _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users