Hi all,
I am trying to test new xen packages from official centos repos. This centos 6.4 x86_64 host is my main virt platform at home (KVM based).
My idea is to use kvm and xen in this same host (using init level 3 for kvm and init level 4 for xen), but when I try to install xen packages (using the procedure described in wiki), xen installs new kernel and tries to remove my kvm-kernel aware (remember, official kernel from centos repos).
From my point of view, it is not admissible.
Do I need to do another complete centos OS install to use xen packages?? Is not possible to use both kernels with only one OS install??
Thanks.
On 06/22/2013 07:05 PM, C. L. Martinez wrote:
My idea is to use kvm and xen in this same host (using init level 3 for kvm and init level 4 for xen), but when I try to install xen packages (using the procedure described in wiki), xen installs new kernel and tries to remove my kvm-kernel aware (remember, official kernel from centos repos).
the kernel included in the xen repo, is also kvm aware. Can you post some more specific details about what the problem is and ideally, the yum transaction logs ?
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On 06/22/2013 01:05 PM, C. L. Martinez wrote:
Hi all,
I am trying to test new xen packages from official centos repos. This centos 6.4 x86_64 host is my main virt platform at home (KVM based).
My idea is to use kvm and xen in this same host (using init level 3 for kvm and init level 4 for xen), but when I try to install xen packages (using the procedure described in wiki), xen installs new kernel and tries to remove my kvm-kernel aware (remember, official kernel from centos repos).
From my point of view, it is not admissible.
Do I need to do another complete centos OS install to use xen packages?? Is not possible to use both kernels with only one OS install??
There are known issues with the xen and KVM on the same base machine ... the xen version qemu and the kvm version of qemu clash as does the libvirt-daemon-kvm and some of the other packages in the main distro.
We know this happens, and we may try to work on it in the future, but for now KVM and Xen on the same base machine is not supported.
The kernel would do KVM though, just not all the packages will install if you are installing xen as well.
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 2:18 AM, Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org wrote:
On 06/22/2013 01:05 PM, C. L. Martinez wrote:
Hi all,
I am trying to test new xen packages from official centos repos. This centos 6.4 x86_64 host is my main virt platform at home (KVM based).
My idea is to use kvm and xen in this same host (using init level 3 for kvm and init level 4 for xen), but when I try to install xen packages (using the procedure described in wiki), xen installs new kernel and tries to remove my kvm-kernel aware (remember, official kernel from centos repos).
From my point of view, it is not admissible.
Do I need to do another complete centos OS install to use xen packages?? Is not possible to use both kernels with only one OS install??
There are known issues with the xen and KVM on the same base machine ... the xen version qemu and the kvm version of qemu clash as does the libvirt-daemon-kvm and some of the other packages in the main distro.
We know this happens, and we may try to work on it in the future, but for now KVM and Xen on the same base machine is not supported.
The kernel would do KVM though, just not all the packages will install if you are installing xen as well.
Sorry for my late response. Thanks Johnny, I will do a second installation to test new xen repo ...
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