Howto build the different guest OS???

Hello group,
I have tested FC5 test 2 and xen. All ran very good. I want to take a
further test that runs on a different OS guest (i.e. running FC4 guest
OS on FC5 test2 hypervisor), but I didn't know howto build the guest OS
yet.

Can you guys show me how? Or can you point me to somw urls that have
some instructions/hints/howto build the OS guests?

Thanks in advance for your help,
Best regards,

Danny Trinh
512-723-6445
CNE, MCSE, RHCE, LPIC1, A+
Senior Analyst
PG Enterprise Linux Solutions
Dell Inc.

[Daniel Veillard]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 09:22:57AM -0600, Danny_Trinh(a)Dell.com wrote:
>  Hello group,
>  I have tested FC5 test 2 and xen. All ran very good. I want to take a
>  further test that runs on a different OS guest (i.e. running FC4 guest
>  OS on FC5 test2 hypervisor), but I didn't know howto build the guest OS
>  yet.
>  
>  Can you guys show me how? Or can you point me to somw urls that have
>  some instructions/hints/howto build the OS guests? 
  For Fedora Core 4 I used the following:
    http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraXenQuickstart
then I mounted the fc4 disck in loopback and installed the guest 2.6.15
kernels in it (but there is a lot of dependancies mismatches, the only
goal was to have /lib/modules/ subtrees for xennet.ko network module).
Then I hand edited a /etc/xen/fc4 configuration file using the path
to those modules.
I don't think there is really a clean way which will work in many cases
unfortunately, with paravirtualization you end up mixing things from
the Dom0 OS and from the DomU one.

Daniel

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[Adam Huda]

If you want a guest image already prepared, check out http:// 
jailtime.org/.

Also http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraXenQuickstartFC5 has  
instructions for using /usr/sbin/xenguest-install.py.

On Feb 10, 2006, at 7:22 AM, Danny_Trinh(a)Dell.com wrote:

>  Hello group,
>  I have tested FC5 test 2 and xen. All ran very good. I want to take  
>  a further test that runs on a different OS guest (i.e. running FC4  
>  guest OS on FC5 test2 hypervisor), but I didn't know howto build  
>  the guest OS yet.
>
>  Can you guys show me how? Or can you point me to somw urls that  
>  have some instructions/hints/howto build the OS guests?
>
>  Thanks in advance for your help,
>  Best regards,
>
>  Danny Trinh
>  512-723-6445
>  CNE, MCSE, RHCE, LPIC1, A+
>  Senior Analyst
>  PG Enterprise Linux Solutions
>  Dell Inc.
>
>
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[Karel Zak]

On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 12:01 -0800, Adam Huda wrote:

>  Also http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraXenQuickstartFC5
>  has instructions for using /usr/sbin/xenguest-install.py. 
But it uses FC5 anaconda and xen install image. It doesn't seem like
good way how install the FC4 guest.

	Karel

>  On Feb 10, 2006, at 7:22 AM, Danny_Trinh(a)Dell.com wrote:
>  
>  > Hello group, 
>  > I have tested FC5 test 2 and xen. All ran very good. I want to take
>  > a further test that runs on a different OS guest (i.e. running FC4
>  > guest OS on FC5 test2 hypervisor), but I didn't know howto build the
>  > guest OS yet. 

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