At long last, I'd like to announce beta packages for CentOS 7,
available from the community build system.
Start by installing the centos-release-xen:
rpm -ivh http://cbs.centos.org/repos/virt7-xen-44-testing/x86_64/os/Packages/centos-…
This will set up yum repositories for both the eventual release
repositories (enabled by default), and the community build system
repositories (disabled by default).
At the moment, all packages will be stored in the virt-xen-44-testing
repository. You can either enable this by default by editing
/etc/yum.repos.d/VirtSIG-Xen.repo, or by adding
"--enablerepo=virt-xen-44-testing".
If you want, you can edit defaults /etc/sysconfig/xen-kernel
Next, run 'yum update' to get the new kernel:
yum --enablerepo=virt-xen-44-testing update kernel
Now install xen:
yum --enablerepo=virt-xen-44-testing install xen
This should grab both xen and the updated kernel package. It should
also automatically:
* Add default commandline parameters for Xen and Linux when booting under Xen
* Arrange for xen to come up first in the grub
* Set the default boot entry to Xen.
That's it! Reboot and you should be good to go.
Libvirt packages aren't available yet but should be on the way soon
(I'll announce them here.)
Please report any problems or feedback to this list.
-George
Hello, All!
Is it possible to use binary packages build from
http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-3.5/rpm/el7/SRPMS/qemu-kvm-ev-2.1.2-23…
with plain CentOS 7.1 and use all other packages from CentOS
(libvirt, virt-manager, etc)
Is it have reasons, if I not use live migrations and qcow2 snapshots?
(instead use zfs, zvols and zfs snapshots for VM disks online backups)
Is using qemu-kvm-ev with CentOS 7.1 have any disadvantages?
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Best regards,
Gena
Hello,
I posted a question over at xenproject.org but it was recommended that I
send out a message here for help.
My post there:
http://www.xenproject.org/help/questions-and-answers/vanilla-pv-centos-gues…
The TL;DR is: Everything I've found to kickstart a new vanilla rhel/centos
guest points to specifying a kernel & and initrd- for RHEL/Centos 5. But
where is the xen initrd for Centos 6? The Xen4Quickstart instructions are
awesome, but after install you are left with a kernel and an initramfs & no
initrd for a centos 6 guest in xen.
So is there a better way to kickstart a fresh/vanilla VM post
Xen4Quickstart instructions? Shall I build an initrd from the initramfs
(and how) or is there another way?
Apologies if this is discussed elsewhere, but if it is I have yet to find
it and I've been looking around for some time.
Thank you!