Jerry Geis wrote: / Hey I was wanting to play with xen on beta 5.
/>>/ I have the beta 5 installed in my turion laptop. Went smooth... (4.4 />>/ would not install) />>/ />>/ Anyway anyone know were a starting point with xen might be?> /
Have you bothered RTFM'ing a bit ?
- KB
Well karanbir,
I have bothered looking for one... Thank you for asking so nicely.
I downloaded the ISO. I obviosuly installed the beta, I tried man xen, whereis xen... I launched firefox thinking the first page might have a link to a manual, etc... but no... Earlier when I tried to read the release notes I got a page cannot be displayed....
I tried doing "yum install xen" which resulted in a hung yum.
So yes I have tried a number of things - but I did not find anything.
Have a great day!
Jerry
Jerry Geis wrote:
Jerry Geis wrote: / Hey I was wanting to play with xen on beta 5.
/>>/ I have the beta 5 installed in my turion laptop. Went smooth... (4.4 />>/ would not install) />>/ />>/ Anyway anyone know were a starting point with xen might be?> /
Have you bothered RTFM'ing a bit ?
- KB
Well karanbir,
I have bothered looking for one... Thank you for asking so nicely.
I downloaded the ISO. I obviosuly installed the beta, I tried man xen, whereis xen... I launched firefox thinking the first page might have a link to a manual, etc... but no... Earlier when I tried to read the release notes I got a page cannot be displayed....
I tried doing "yum install xen" which resulted in a hung yum.
So yes I have tried a number of things - but I did not find anything.
Deployment_Guide - Chapter 3
- KB
Jerry Geis wrote:
Jerry Geis wrote: / Hey I was wanting to play with xen on beta 5.
/>>/ I have the beta 5 installed in my turion laptop. Went smooth... (4.4 />>/ would not install) />>/ />>/ Anyway anyone know were a starting point with xen might be?> /
Have you bothered RTFM'ing a bit ?
- KB
Well karanbir,
I have bothered looking for one... Thank you for asking so nicely.
If you want serious help, you need to make it clear what you have done. It encourages helpers to feel there's helping someone who's making an effort. A lot of folk would have ignored you.
I don't know what you've looked at, it didn't take me long to find these on FC6: /usr/sbin/virt-install --help xm list xm mem-set Domain-0 128 xm list /usr/sbin/virt-install --file=/tmp/disk --file-size=4 --ram=128 --name=test1 --location=http://RHEL.demo.lan/Fedora/6/i386/os/ That one ran overnight ans was still on the first package. 128 Mbtes isn't enough for Anaconda, but it tries.
There are also xen mailing lists you could have found, there's the zen home page you could have found.
John Summerfield wrote: on=http://RHEL.demo.lan/Fedora/6/i386/os/
That one ran overnight ans was still on the first package. 128 Mbtes isn't enough for Anaconda, but it tries.
yeah :(
We've got some really mixed results with ram usage with the new anaconda yuminstall stuff. You really need about 384MB+ to get a decent package selection to install in GUI mode and about 256MB+ for the text installer.
- KB
Karanbir Singh wrote:
John Summerfield wrote: on=http://RHEL.demo.lan/Fedora/6/i386/os/
That one ran overnight ans was still on the first package. 128 Mbtes isn't enough for Anaconda, but it tries.
yeah :(
We've got some really mixed results with ram usage with the new anaconda yuminstall stuff. You really need about 384MB+ to get a decent package selection to install in GUI mode and about 256MB+ for the text installer.
In my case, 256 was okay. I did a text-mode install (sans colour) connected by ssh to the host from another box. It was odd having an 80x25 window in my 160x64 screen.
Now installed, fc6's kernel just panics, but thats for another place.
A couple of things not to like: 1. Suse has a standard place for guest filesystems, RH does not. 2. Suse sets up a CD drive quite nicely, for RH it seems a little vim is needed. 3. Everyone I've tried (SUSE, *ubuntu, RH) sets things up differently and incompatibly. I can't easily take my SLED virtual system to Kunbuntu or (I suspect) RHEL.
I want to be able to create virtuals of several distros on the same system. Ubuntu's closest, i think, it has rpmstrap to bootstrap.
4. Booting a Xen guest is a bit odd. With Virtual PC in Windows, you start the vm and uou have the opportunity to tweak BIOS settings, just as on real hardware. Then, the BIOS boots a "disk," just like on real hardware. It is good enough to run INSERT, a Linux recovery distro.
Red Hat and Suse have some magic to boot the guest's kernel, at least. Red Hat's may be better here. Debian/Ubuntu use a kernel from the host filesystem: it's a quick way to get Sarge up, albeit with an unsupported kernel.
I note there is a BIOS here someplace.
5. RH's disk naming is a bit odd. Suse gives is the good old /dev/hda (or hda[1-..] if you don't want partitions.
6. RH seems to only set one disk up. I didn't see a way to define a CD, probably a little more vim.
7. The process of booting install media is hidden, and different in each case. 8. Xen uses special device drivers. I prefer Virtual PC's emulation of a Dec Tulip network card, standard IDE hardware etc. No special drivers needed. I can run OS/2 in that!
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