AW: [Fedora-xen] Fedora 10 Release and Virtualization News / RHEL5/CentOS5 dom0 support for F10 guest domUs
Daniel P. Berrange
berrange at redhat.com
Wed Nov 26 10:57:01 UTC 2008
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 12:38:29PM +0200, Pasi K?rkk?inen wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 12:31:31PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:06:36AM +0000, M A Young wrote:
> > > On Tue, 25 Nov 2008, Franz Von Hahn wrote:
> > >
> > > >You could propably use CentOS 5.2 als a dom0. It is shipped with a
> > > >kernel-xen package 2.6.18.x. It works fine for me but i haven't tried
> > > >F10 so far since i'm acutally downloading the iso image of F10 which
> > > >takes a long time when using a 1024kpb/s line, you know ;)
> > >
> > > I believe you need Centos 5.3 for F10 xen guest clients which, as RHEL5.3
> > > beta has only just appeared, probably won't be available until after
> > > Fedora 8 has EOLed.
> > >
> >
> > Yeah.. I believe RHEL 5.2 and CentOS 5.2 has too old python-virtinst
> > to handle/install F10 guests..
> >
> > RHEL 5.3 will contain updated python-virtinst that supports F10 guests.
> > It is already included in RHEL 5.3 beta.
> >
> > http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-rawhide-domU-on-RHEL5.2-dom0--p19833725.html
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460585
> >
> > If you can't try RHEL 5.3 beta dom0, you could try with installing
> > python-virtinst-0.300.2-10.el5 or newer to your RHEL 5.2 / CentOS 5.2 dom0..
> > it should add support for F10 domUs. For more information check that
> > bugzilla link above.
> >
> > RHEL 5.3 beta announcement:
> > https://www.redhat.com/archives/rhelv5-announce/2008-October/msg00000.html
> >
> > contains:
> > python-virtinst-0.300.2-11.el5
> >
>
> Oh, and it seems you also need newer libxc:
Yes, that is correct - RHEL-5.2 Xen doesn't understand the new bzImage
style kernels.
Daniel
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