[CentOS-virt] installing xen on c7

Sun Feb 28 10:45:05 UTC 2016
Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>

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



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