On Thu, October 9, 2008 12:09, James B. Byrne wrote:
So: # cd /path/to/vm/os/install_tree # cp -pr /media/CentOS_5.2_Final ./
Thereafter the Install Media URL becomes: /path/to/vm/os/install_tree/CentOS_5.2_Final
Well, RH implementation of xen appears far less useful from an experimentation standpoint than I expected. From the Virtualization Guide:
With Red Hat Virtualization, 32-bit hosts runs only 32-bit paravirtual guests. 64-bit hosts runs only 64-bit paravirtual guests. And a 64-bit full virtualization host runs 32-bit, 32-bit PAE, or 64-bit guests. A 32-bit full virtualization host runs both PAE and non-PAE full virtualization guests.
So, on my test machine that supports only paravirtualization I can only run 64 bit versions of a supported paravirtualized guest OS. This limits me to essentially CentOS-4 and CentOS-5 ix_64. I was hoping to be able to run CentOS-5.2 i386 as a guest as there is no 64 bit Sun JRE that allows Firefox to run Java applets.
Oh well, this was just a trial to see what was involved with virtualization.