OS: CentOS 5.0 x86.
I have an internal modem with a driver that works with CentOS 4.x but not with 5.0. So I am thinking of using Xen in conjunction to SL 4.x.
My question is, does this require separate physical partitions for SL 4.x, or will these be part of a VM file or something with CentOS 5.0 as a host?
Hi,
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:47:55 +0300 Ioannis Vranos ivranos@freemail.gr wrote:
I have an internal modem with a driver that works with CentOS 4.x but not with 5.0. So I am thinking of using Xen in conjunction to SL 4.x.
Please be aware that dom0 normally only has real physical hardware access, though it is possible to hide some devices for dom0 to make them available in domU. If this is a PCI device, look for "pciback.hide" in the Xen User's Manual for more information.
My question is, does this require separate physical partitions for SL 4.x, or will these be part of a VM file or something with CentOS 5.0 as a host?
domUs can be installed on physical partitions or disk image files.
With kind regards, Daniel de Kok
Daniel de Kok wrote:
Hi,
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:47:55 +0300 Ioannis Vranos ivranos@freemail.gr wrote:
I have an internal modem with a driver that works with CentOS 4.x but not with 5.0. So I am thinking of using Xen in conjunction to SL 4.x.
Please be aware that dom0 normally only has real physical hardware access, though it is possible to hide some devices for dom0 to make them available in domU. If this is a PCI device, look for "pciback.hide" in the Xen User's Manual for more information.
My question is, does this require separate physical partitions for SL 4.x, or will these be part of a VM file or something with CentOS 5.0 as a host?
domUs can be installed on physical partitions or disk image files.
With kind regards, Daniel de Kok
Is there any CentOS 5 Xen reference/howto/wiki?
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 20:26:08 +0300 Ioannis Vranos ivranos@freemail.gr wrote:
Is there any CentOS 5 Xen reference/howto/wiki?
You may find the following pages useful:
http://centos.org/docs/5/html/Virtualization-en-US/ http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netos/xen/readmes/user/user.html http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Xen/InstallingCentOSDomU
-- Daniel
Daniel de Kok wrote:
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 20:26:08 +0300 Ioannis Vranos ivranos@freemail.gr wrote:
Is there any CentOS 5 Xen reference/howto/wiki?
You may find the following pages useful:
http://centos.org/docs/5/html/Virtualization-en-US/ http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netos/xen/readmes/user/user.html http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Xen/InstallingCentOSDomU
So if I got it correctly so far, is the first step in using Xen, to install the xen-enabled kernel on my CentOS 5.0 machine and reboot it, without any need for repartition/reformat/reinstall?
On Apr 27, 2007, at 11:02 AM, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
So if I got it correctly so far, is the first step in using Xen, to install the xen-enabled kernel on my CentOS 5.0 machine and reboot it, without any need for repartition/reformat/reinstall?
Yes - install it and modify grub.conf to use it, no need to reinstall.
What the virtualization guide doesn't mention until the troubleshooting section is that you'll also want to modify DEFAULTKERNEL from "kernel" to "kernel-xen" in /etc/sysconfig/kernel, or future yum upgrades will switch your system back to using the non- Xen kernel by default.
It also doesn't mention the full package list you'll need to use Xen. I found that "sudo yum -y install virt-manager kernel-xen" was enough to pull in everything.
Please send this patch upstream.
Daniel de Kok wrote:
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 20:26:08 +0300 Ioannis Vranos ivranos@freemail.gr wrote:
Is there any CentOS 5 Xen reference/howto/wiki?
You may find the following pages useful:
http://centos.org/docs/5/html/Virtualization-en-US/ http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netos/xen/readmes/user/user.html http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Xen/InstallingCentOSDomU
-- Daniel _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=240474
Daniel de Kok wrote:
Hi
On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 14:19 -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:
Please send this patch upstream.
Good catches. Please report these bugs to upstream via their bugzilla.
-- Daniel
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More typo fixes for upstream...
Daniel de Kok wrote:
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 20:26:08 +0300 Ioannis Vranos ivranos@freemail.gr wrote:
Is there any CentOS 5 Xen reference/howto/wiki?
You may find the following pages useful:
http://centos.org/docs/5/html/Virtualization-en-US/ http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netos/xen/readmes/user/user.html http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Xen/InstallingCentOSDomU
-- Daniel _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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