Build custom Xen Kernel

[Kostas Sfakiotakis]

Greetings ,

I have a Fedora 14 64 bit installation running on a machine with a 
dual core AMD 64 bit at 3,00 GHz  cpu ,
2 GB of  RAM and a lot of hard disk space ( the Fedora installation 
resides on a 1,5 TB hard disk drive ) .
I have succesfully  installed and run a virtual machine running Windows 
XP  Professional under QEMU but
now i wanted to do it with Xen . I have google for it and it seems that 
the first thing am missing is a Xen
kernel . Since am quite new on this thing i was wondering if  there is 
somewhere a step by step guide  with
instructions on how to install and run a virtual machine  under Xen 
instead of QEMU .

Kind Regards ,
    Kostas

[Jerry Feldman]

On 11/29/2010 04:22 PM, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote:
> Greetings ,
>
> I have a Fedora 14 64 bit installation running on a machine with a 
> dual core AMD 64 bit at 3,00 GHz  cpu ,
> 2 GB of  RAM and a lot of hard disk space ( the Fedora installation 
> resides on a 1,5 TB hard disk drive ) .
> I have succesfully  installed and run a virtual machine running Windows 
> XP  Professional under QEMU but
> now i wanted to do it with Xen . I have google for it and it seems that 
> the first thing am missing is a Xen
> kernel . Since am quite new on this thing i was wondering if  there is 
> somewhere a step by step guide  with
> instructions on how to install and run a virtual machine  under Xen 
> instead of QEMU .

Just my opinion, but try VirtualBox. It installs nicely in Fedora 14.
The latest version is 3.2.12.

[Kostas Sfakiotakis]

On 12/02/2010 11:47 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> On 11/29/2010 04:22 PM, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote:
> > Greetings ,
> >
> > I have a Fedora 14 64 bit installation running on a machine with a
> > dual core AMD 64 bit at 3,00 GHz cpu , 2 GB of RAM and a lot of
> > hard disk space ( the Fedora installation resides on a 1,5 TB hard
> > disk drive ) . I have succesfully installed and run a virtual
> > machine running Windows XP Professional under QEMU but now i
> > wanted to do it with Xen . I have google for it and it seems that
> > the first thing am missing is a Xen kernel . Since am quite new on
> > this thing i was wondering if there is somewhere a step by step
> > guide with instructions on how to install and run a virtual
> > machine under Xen instead of QEMU .
>
> Just my opinion, but try VirtualBox. It installs nicely in Fedora
>  14. The latest version is 3.2.12.

Do you by any means mean this one :

http://www.virtualbox.org/

You said that it installs nicely , well am currently downloading the rpm
and i will certainly give it a try but have  you already tried it and 
how did
it performed , i mean apart from a nice install when u actually tried to
install a guest operating system how was it ? Any special remarks that 
should
be considered ?

[Hiisi]

On Fri, 2010-12-03 at 01:00 +0200, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote:
> You said that it installs nicely , well am currently downloading the
> rpm

As I also have to used closed version from virtualbox.org I've created
virtualbox.repo in /etc/yum.repos.d to beup2date with it:
[virtualbox]
name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch - VirtualBox
baseurl=http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/$releasever/$basearch
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc
> and i will certainly give it a try but have  you already tried it and 
> how did
> it performed , i mean apart from a nice install when u actually tried
> to
> install a guest operating system how was it ? Any special remarks
> that 
> should
> be considered ?

It's fast and furious ;-)

[Kostas Sfakiotakis]

Hiisi wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-12-03 at 01:00 +0200, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote:
> > You said that it installs nicely , well am currently downloading
> > the rpm
>
> As I also have to used closed version from virtualbox.org I've
>  created virtualbox.repo in /etc/yum.repos.d to beup2date with it:
>  [virtualbox] name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch - VirtualBox

baseurl=http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/$releasever/$basearch
> enabled=1
>  gpgcheck=1
>  gpgkey=http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc
> >

and i will certainly give it a try but have  you already tried it and
> > how did it performed , i mean apart from a nice install when u
> > actually tried to install a guest operating system how was it ? Any
> > special remarks that should be considered ?
>
> It's fast and furious ;-)

Ok , thanks a lot for the information .