It appears that if I perform an install of CentOS 5.1 without changing *anything* in the options, then do a #yum groupinstall 'Virtualization' I can now get Xen to function in bridged mode (it has network connectivity). In lieu of this, can anyone shed some light on what dependency Xen has that is not installed when you do a completely bare install and execute a #yum install xen? I am hoping to finally end up with a minimum install of CentOS with Xen functioning without a gui or any additional services that won't be needed.
Thanks! jlc
Just install xen en kernel-xen. That should be sufficient. Possibly you can add virsh,if it's not allready there.
Groupinstall virtualization also installs the GUI-tools (and possibly also a GUI).
Cheers,
Bart
Joseph L. Casale wrote:
It appears that if I perform an install of CentOS 5.1 without changing *anything* in the options, then do a #yum groupinstall 'Virtualization' I can now get Xen to function in bridged mode (it has network connectivity). In lieu of this, can anyone shed some light on what dependency Xen has that is not installed when you do a completely bare install and execute a #yum install xen? I am hoping to finally end up with a minimum install of CentOS with Xen functioning without a gui or any additional services that won't be needed.
Thanks! jlc _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Just install xen en kernel-xen. That should be sufficient. Possibly you can add virsh,if it's not allready there.
Groupinstall virtualization also installs the GUI-tools (and possibly also a GUI).
Cheers,
Bart
Yes, I follow this exact suggestion and can repeatedly produce the same results where once booted into the Xen kernel, I have no network access unless I switch to routed mode in the sxp file.
Thanks. jlc
On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 07:49:37 -0700
Groupinstall virtualization also installs the GUI-tools (and possibly also a GUI).
This sort of a question really should goto the CentOS-Virt list.
Karanbir Singh wrote:
This sort of a question really should goto the CentOS-Virt list.
It does not appear at www.centos.org>support>mailing lists. http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=16 Google "CentOS-Virt" found it for me :). maybe the page needs to be updated? thanks.
Raghavendra Moktali wrote:
Karanbir Singh wrote:
This sort of a question really should goto the CentOS-Virt list.
It does not appear at www.centos.org>support>mailing lists. http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=16 Google "CentOS-Virt" found it for me :). maybe the page needs to be updated? thanks. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Looks like it, the list of lists is at :
http://wiki.centos.org/GettingHelp/ListInfo
so perhaps that page on www.centos.org needs to be removed with a link to the wiki page instead.
On Fri, 2007-12-28 at 23:03 -0700, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
It appears that if I perform an install of CentOS 5.1 without changing *anything* in the options, then do a #yum groupinstall 'Virtualization' I can now get Xen to function in bridged mode (it has network connectivity). In lieu of this, can anyone shed some light on what dependency Xen has that is not installed when you do a completely bare install and execute a #yum install xen? I am hoping to finally end up with a minimum install of CentOS with Xen functioning without a gui or any additional services that won't be needed.
Thanks! jlc
In your "broken" setup, do you have libvirt and/or bridge-utils?
--Tim _______________________________________________________________________ / Wait! You have not been prepared! \ \ -- Mr. Atoz, "Tomorrow is Yesterday", stardate 3113.2 / ----------------------------------------------------------------------- \ \ \ \ /\ ( ) .( o ).
In your "broken" setup, do you have libvirt and/or bridge-utils?
--Tim
Tim, Yes it does. I think I am seeing the issue reported in a previous errata regarding Bugzilla Bug 237667 in RHEL for a now released fix in the current Xen rpm available. I have this exact behavior, and after many different installs on different machines, I finally saw a clean install done exactly the same work once and fail another.
I emailed the assigned tech at rh about the bug and never heard back...
Thanks, jlc
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