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<p class=MsoNormal>I’ve been fighting xen for a few weeks now so sorry if
this is old news but here’s what I ‘ve found, hope it helps a few.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
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</span></span><![endif]>You cant run xen dom0 in vmware – not true it
seems...?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt'>Yes you can. I did a
lot of searching and found lots of ‘you cant’ it has to be bare
metal to work but its not true.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt'>BTW – you can search for
days and not find anything on fedora / xen / clustering its really a hard time
at the moment we<br>
need to sort it out...<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt'>I was installing FC8 on VMware and
trying everything but xen says on boot “relinquishing vga console”.
This is bad and means<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt'>when you later run virt-manager
you will be only be offered qemu emulation and paravirtualization will not be
available because<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt'>XEN didn’t really boot.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt'>So I installed FC8 native straight
on the hardware, and still the same thing happened, Xen wouldn’t boot
properly and virt-manager<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt'>only offered my qemu emulation.
Some searching suggested machines with 4gb may be the problem so maybe it works
for you but <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt'>FC8 out of the box does not work
on my AMD 64X2 Nforce motherboard system with 5Gb ram.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt'>My working machine ran FC7,
and the kernel-xen was kernel-xen......7.rpm My FC8 was
running kernel-xen.....7.3. I removed<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt'>kernel-xen .....7.3 and installed
the kernel-xen .....7.rpm from website rpmfind and now it booted and xen emulation
was<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt'>available in
virt-manager. Virt-manger didn’t work first time so I
had to give it a push with:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt'>virt-manager –c xen:///system<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt'>and then all was
good. No longer was qemu the only option and I could create proper
paravirtualized machines.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt'>I wondered if the ‘vmware
doesn’t work with xen’ was really true after this and sure enough,
replacing<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt'>the FC8 kernel with the
kernel-xen ....7 from fc7 also gave me proper dom0 emulation in vmware too.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt'>Hope this helps
someone. Basically – its not always your fault you need the
right mix of kernel and xen to support your hardware<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt'>and if you get the “xen
relingquishing vga console” message on boot it means you don’t have
xen working properly and need to<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt'>explore a different build for
your hardware.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt'>J.<o:p></o:p></p>
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