Hi, I have RHEL v 5.4 desktop system. (It is licensed system and registered to Redhat Network though). I am trying to install Xen on this. and I did yum install xen. It say No package xen available Nothing to do. Any hints please?? THanks BK _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
yum search xen ----- Mensaje original ----- De: kishore kumar <bodkekumar@gmail.com> Enviado: Jueves, 04 de Marzo de 2010 09:04 p.m. Para: xen-users@lists.xensource.com Asunto: [Xen-users] Installing xen on RHEL 5.4 Hi, I have RHEL v 5.4 desktop system. (It is licensed system and registered to Redhat Network though). I am trying to install Xen on this. and I did yum install xen. It say No package xen available Nothing to do. Any hints please?? THanks BK _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 7:04 AM, kishore kumar <bodkekumar@gmail.com> wrote:> Hi, > > I have RHEL v 5.4 desktop system. (It is licensed system and registered to > Redhat Network though).Check with your Redhat sales rep. AFAIK xen is not available for RHEL desktop. You can either use RHEL AP, or go with Centos/self compiled Xen (with the consequence of losing Redhat support). -- Fajar _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 10:40:53AM +0700, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 7:04 AM, kishore kumar <bodkekumar@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have RHEL v 5.4 desktop system. (It is licensed system and registered to > > Redhat Network though). > > Check with your Redhat sales rep. AFAIK xen is not available for RHEL desktop. > You can either use RHEL AP, or go with Centos/self compiled Xen (with > the consequence of losing Redhat support). >I think RHEL5 desktop needs the "Multi OS" option/channel to have Xen. -- Pasi _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Thanks to everyone for the reply. I did do yum install xen as well as yum install kernel-xen. It installed kernel xen which I think is the DOM 0 kernel. But it did not install the actuall xen itself. I checked doing yum list xen*. There is no xen installed. Then I spoke to customer center for the Red Hat, they told me that I have just the Basic RHEL v 5.4. I need to purchase the RHEL5.4 with Virtualization and Multi OS support to have the Xen and all the virtualization support. Then I had another question in my mind, thinking that can we compile and install the xen source itself on RHEL basic version? But again I came across with another problem, when I was trying to pull out the source from mercurial repository. It gave me saying hg command not found. Then I did yum install mercurial. It again gave me the message saying No packages available. Why is this so? On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@iki.fi> wrote:> On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 10:40:53AM +0700, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 7:04 AM, kishore kumar <bodkekumar@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have RHEL v 5.4 desktop system. (It is licensed system and registered > to > > > Redhat Network though). > > > > Check with your Redhat sales rep. AFAIK xen is not available for RHEL > desktop. > > You can either use RHEL AP, or go with Centos/self compiled Xen (with > > the consequence of losing Redhat support). > > > > I think RHEL5 desktop needs the "Multi OS" option/channel to have Xen. > > -- Pasi > >_______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 11:04:54AM -0800, kishore kumar wrote:> Thanks to everyone for the reply. > > I did do yum install xen as well as yum install kernel-xen. > > It installed kernel xen which I think is the DOM 0 kernel. But it did not > install the actuall xen itself. > > I checked doing yum list xen*. There is no xen installed. > > Then I spoke to customer center for the Red Hat, they told me that I > have just the Basic RHEL v 5.4. I need to purchase the RHEL5.4 with > Virtualization and Multi OS support to have the Xen and all the > virtualization support. > > Then I had another question in my mind, thinking that can we compile and > install the xen source itself on RHEL basic version? >You can grab the xen src.rpm from ftp.redhat.com and re-build it on your RHEL5 desktop. This is the easiest way.> But again I came across with another problem, when I was trying to pull > out the source from mercurial repository. > > It gave me saying hg command not found. Then I did yum install > mercurial. It again gave me the message saying No packages available. > > Why is this so? >Because RHEL5 doesn''t include mercurial package. I think it might be in the EPEL repo. -- Pasi> > > > > On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <[1]pasik@iki.fi> wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 10:40:53AM +0700, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 7:04 AM, kishore kumar > <[2]bodkekumar@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have RHEL v 5.4 desktop system. (It is licensed system and > registered to > > > Redhat Network though). > > > > Check with your Redhat sales rep. AFAIK xen is not available for RHEL > desktop. > > You can either use RHEL AP, or go with Centos/self compiled Xen (with > > the consequence of losing Redhat support). > > > > I think RHEL5 desktop needs the "Multi OS" option/channel to have Xen. > -- Pasi > > References > > Visible links > 1. mailto:pasik@iki.fi > 2. mailto:bodkekumar@gmail.com_______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
hg (mercurial) may be installed on RHEL 5 via standard tar.gz file in 10 min. Version should not be the most recent ( about 2-3 years old). Due to up to date mercurial match Ubuntu''s set of libraries. --- On Fri, 3/5/10, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@iki.fi> wrote: From: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@iki.fi> Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Installing xen on RHEL 5.4 To: "kishore kumar" <bodkekumar@gmail.com> Cc: "Fajar A. Nugraha" <fajar@fajar.net>, xen-users@lists.xensource.com Date: Friday, March 5, 2010, 2:16 PM On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 11:04:54AM -0800, kishore kumar wrote:> Thanks to everyone for the reply. > > I did do yum install xen as well as yum install kernel-xen. > > It installed kernel xen which I think is the DOM 0 kernel. But it did not > install the actuall xen itself. > > I checked doing yum list xen*. There is no xen installed. > > Then I spoke to customer center for the Red Hat, they told me that I > have just the Basic RHEL v 5.4. I need to purchase the RHEL5.4 with > Virtualization and Multi OS support to have the Xen and all the > virtualization support. > > Then I had another question in my mind, thinking that can we compile and > install the xen source itself on RHEL basic version? >You can grab the xen src.rpm from ftp.redhat.com and re-build it on your RHEL5 desktop. This is the easiest way.> But again I came across with another problem, when I was trying to pull > out the source from mercurial repository. > > It gave me saying hg command not found. Then I did yum install > mercurial. It again gave me the message saying No packages available. > > Why is this so? >Because RHEL5 doesn''t include mercurial package. I think it might be in the EPEL repo. -- Pasi> > > > > On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <[1]pasik@iki.fi> wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 10:40:53AM +0700, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 7:04 AM, kishore kumar > <[2]bodkekumar@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have RHEL v 5.4 desktop system. (It is licensed system and > registered to > > > Redhat Network though). > > > > Check with your Redhat sales rep. AFAIK xen is not available for RHEL > desktop. > > You can either use RHEL AP, or go with Centos/self compiled Xen (with > > the consequence of losing Redhat support). > > > > I think RHEL5 desktop needs the "Multi OS" option/channel to have Xen. > -- Pasi > > References > > Visible links > 1. mailto:pasik@iki.fi > 2. mailto:bodkekumar@gmail.com_______________________________________________ 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
Even after getting the xen src rpm from ftp.redhat.com, will I be able to get all the supporting packages for xen? like yum install virt-manager libvirt libvirt-python python-virtinst. And also ftp.redhat.com does not have the latest version of Xen 3.4.2. I am seeing only 3.0.3 versions. On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@iki.fi> wrote:> On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 11:04:54AM -0800, kishore kumar wrote: > > Thanks to everyone for the reply. > > > > I did do yum install xen as well as yum install kernel-xen. > > > > It installed kernel xen which I think is the DOM 0 kernel. But it did > not > > install the actuall xen itself. > > > > I checked doing yum list xen*. There is no xen installed. > > > > Then I spoke to customer center for the Red Hat, they told me that I > > have just the Basic RHEL v 5.4. I need to purchase the RHEL5.4 with > > Virtualization and Multi OS support to have the Xen and all the > > virtualization support. > > > > Then I had another question in my mind, thinking that can we compile > and > > install the xen source itself on RHEL basic version? > > > > You can grab the xen src.rpm from ftp.redhat.com and re-build it on your > RHEL5 desktop. > This is the easiest way. > > > But again I came across with another problem, when I was trying to > pull > > out the source from mercurial repository. > > > > It gave me saying hg command not found. Then I did yum install > > mercurial. It again gave me the message saying No packages available. > > > > Why is this so? > > > > Because RHEL5 doesn''t include mercurial package. I think it might be in the > EPEL repo. > > -- Pasi > > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <[1]pasik@iki.fi> > wrote: > > > > On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 10:40:53AM +0700, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 7:04 AM, kishore kumar > > <[2]bodkekumar@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I have RHEL v 5.4 desktop system. (It is licensed system and > > registered to > > > > Redhat Network though). > > > > > > Check with your Redhat sales rep. AFAIK xen is not available for > RHEL > > desktop. > > > You can either use RHEL AP, or go with Centos/self compiled Xen > (with > > > the consequence of losing Redhat support). > > > > > > > I think RHEL5 desktop needs the "Multi OS" option/channel to have > Xen. > > -- Pasi > > > > References > > > > Visible links > > 1. mailto:pasik@iki.fi > > 2. mailto:bodkekumar@gmail.com >_______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 12:26:38PM -0800, kishore kumar wrote:> Even after getting the xen src rpm from [1]ftp.redhat.com, will I be able > to get all the supporting packages for xen? >You need to re-build the src.rpms to get binary rpms you can install! You need to use rpmbuild to do that. RHEL5 has Xen hypervisor version 3.1.2 + tools version 3.0.3. -- Pasi> like > yum install virt-manager libvirt libvirt-python python-virtinst. > > And also [2]ftp.redhat.com does not have the latest version of Xen > 3.4.2. I am seeing only 3.0.3 versions. > > On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <[3]pasik@iki.fi> wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 11:04:54AM -0800, kishore kumar wrote: > > Thanks to everyone for the reply. > > > > I did do yum install xen as well as yum install kernel-xen. > > > > It installed kernel xen which I think is the DOM 0 kernel. But it > did not > > install the actuall xen itself. > > > > I checked doing yum list xen*. There is no xen installed. > > > > Then I spoke to customer center for the Red Hat, they told me that > I > > have just the Basic RHEL v 5.4. I need to purchase the RHEL5.4 > with > > Virtualization and Multi OS support to have the Xen and all the > > virtualization support. > > > > Then I had another question in my mind, thinking that can we > compile and > > install the xen source itself on RHEL basic version? > > > > You can grab the xen src.rpm from [4]ftp.redhat.com and re-build it on > your RHEL5 desktop. > This is the easiest way. > > But again I came across with another problem, when I was trying to > pull > > out the source from mercurial repository. > > > > It gave me saying hg command not found. Then I did yum install > > mercurial. It again gave me the message saying No packages > available. > > > > Why is this so? > > > > Because RHEL5 doesn''t include mercurial package. I think it might be in > the EPEL repo. > > -- Pasi > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen > <[1][5]pasik@iki.fi> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 10:40:53AM +0700, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 7:04 AM, kishore kumar > > <[2][6]bodkekumar@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I have RHEL v 5.4 desktop system. (It is licensed system and > > registered to > > > > Redhat Network though). > > > > > > Check with your Redhat sales rep. AFAIK xen is not available > for RHEL > > desktop. > > > You can either use RHEL AP, or go with Centos/self compiled Xen > (with > > > the consequence of losing Redhat support). > > > > > > > I think RHEL5 desktop needs the "Multi OS" option/channel to have > Xen. > > -- Pasi > > > > References > > > > Visible links > > 1. mailto:[7]pasik@iki.fi > > 2. mailto:[8]bodkekumar@gmail.com > > References > > Visible links > 1. ftp://ftp.redhat.com/ > 2. ftp://ftp.redhat.com/ > 3. mailto:pasik@iki.fi > 4. http://ftp.redhat.com/ > 5. mailto:pasik@iki.fi > 6. mailto:bodkekumar@gmail.com > 7. mailto:pasik@iki.fi > 8. mailto:bodkekumar@gmail.com_______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 3:26 AM, kishore kumar <bodkekumar@gmail.com> wrote:> Even after getting the xen src rpm from ftp.redhat.com, will I be able to > get all the supporting packages for xen? > > like > yum install virt-manager libvirt libvirt-python python-virtinst.if you want to be able to install it with yum, the easiest way is to do what RH rep tells you: "purchase the RHEL5.4 with Virtualization and Multi OS support to have the Xen and all the virtualization support." Other alternatives are: - use Centos repositories (IIRC installing centos-release is enough to setup the repositories) which will give you the same versions as RH''s packages, or - use Gitco''s packages (http://www.gitco.de/repo/) which will give you up-to-date xen-related packages, but only for x86_64. Either way, with those two alternatives, you''d lose RH support. -- Fajar _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users