On 28 februarie 2016 12:45:05 EET, Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org wrote:
On 27/02/16 12:52, Yamaban wrote:
On Sat, 27 Feb 2016 13:20, Scot P. Floess wrote:
Hit the send key before actually typing anything :(
Was going to say - ah OK didn't understand your original question. I'm not entirely sure - I just followed directions :) However, you ask a reasonable question.
On Sat, 27 Feb 2016, Karanbir Singh wrote:
On 27/02/16 01:41, Scot P. Floess wrote:
From George's original email, I had to:
- Install centos-release-xen from centos-extras
Then a yum update followed by a yum install xen. That worked for me...
i had to do something similar, but my question is - one cant run
xen
without the kernel, so why not have the xen package require the
xen
kernel as a prereq ?
IMHO, the best way to solve this would a additional line in the
spec-file:
"Provide: kernel-dom0" for those kernel that are provide this functionality.
Then the xen-packages could "Require: kernel-dom0" no matter which way the kernel functionality came to be.
Maybe ask even across distros for such a implemention, to get a more coherent experience for xen.
yeah, the CentOS-5 and 6 Xen stacks already do something similar - which is why I was expecting the CentOS 7 one to do that as well. Let me work this with George and see where he thinks.
Regards
AFAICS, a simple "Requires: kernel >= 3.18" in the xen package should be enough, at least for the CentOS ecosystem... although I think that elrepo's kernels, on purpose, do not provide "kernel" but "'kernel-ml".