I'm currently using FC4 with this kernel and xen build. http://people.redhat.com/riel/xen_for_fc4/

Works great for me (well the best so far :-)

I'm looking to use Centos4.2, but I have (at least) 2 problems.

1. The stock glibc causes a performance problem with tls - which I need to use. I know many people move the tls lib out of the way - but I need it. Glibc needs to be recompiled with a magic flag (sorry don't have it to hand at the moment) and currently the rhel/centos kernels are broken for building glibc. I now have a patched kernel which seems to build glibc OK.

2. There are xen patches to apply to the kernel and I don't know how easy they are to apply to the heavily modified rh kernel? I know many people use a vanilla kernel, but I hoped I could modifiy the rh/centos one. This is on my list to do.

Regards

Daveh

From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Niels Przybilla
Sent: 14 November 2005 11:19
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Subject: AW: [CentOS] CENTOS as Guest in XEN

Hi,

this is a great first approach for me. Do you use CentOS 4 as host os ?

Best regards

Niels

Von: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] Im Auftrag von Dave Hatton
Gesendet: Montag, 14. November 2005 12:14
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Betreff: RE: [CentOS] CENTOS as Guest in XEN

I use rpmstrap to do this.

I use this basic procedure http://trac.samhart.net/trac/wiki/rpmstrap_CentOS4 but rather than use a chroot dir - I create some loopback filesystems which I then mount in Xen.

Does that help or do you need more detail?

Daveh

From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Niels Przybilla
Sent: 14 November 2005 10:58
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Subject: [CentOS] CENTOS as Guest in XEN

Hi,

does anyone know where to get a howto or pre configured Centos working as guest in XEN ?

thnaks and best regards

Niels