On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 14:27 -0700, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
On 1/26/07, Bernard Johnson bjohnson-dated-1169703224.9d1a0c@symetrix.com wrote:
Nils Toedtmann wrote:
I agree. But customization of C4 (and probably C3, too) to run smoothly as a VM is a bit evil (i run a bunch of productive C4 DomUs, so walked through that valley ...): glibc and db4 have to be patched/rebuilt because of NPTL incompatibilities.
I agree that C3 would be a problem - both guest and host.
However, for C4 I have a "installer hack" that allows C4 to install under Xen (FC6 host) using virt-manager & kickstart. When it's finished, the only package that is modified is the kernel (to provide a domU image).
Just for the record, there are test kernels here that MIGHT work:
http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/testing/i386/RPMS/
(and substitute x86_64 for i386 if desired)
Perhaps your VM is the issue with tls. Once I started using a recent enough host (FC6) and a recent enough guest (C4), all my tls problems disappeared. Even SELinux, which was always problematic for me under UML, seems to be working smoothly now.
If someone wants a Xen C4 guest image, let me know, it only takes a few minutes to create.
If the press-briefs are to be believed.. RHEL-4.5.x should have Xen kernels.. which would help this starting out for that level..
See my link above for test kernels if anyone is interested.
As a hear and now.. vmware-player images of Centos-2.1/3.8/4.4 could be made.