Re: Has anyone got rhel3 running under fc4 as a domu

["Michael Paesold" <mpaesold gmx at>]

Dan Track wrote:
> Michael Paesold wrote:
> > So perhaps you could try the domU instead of the dom0 kernel for
> > the rhel3 guest.
>
>
> Hi
>
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> I've tried using the domU, here's my config:
>
> kernel ="/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4xenU"
> ramdisk = "/boot/initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4xenU.img"
> memory = 260
> name = "rhel-3-es"
> nics = 1
> disk = ['phy:hda3,sda1,w']
> root = "/dev/sda1 ro"
>
> Any chance you could post your configs and how you installed rhel3.

The only real difference here is that I did not use an initial ram disk. I 
do not see a reason that it would be useful because the unprivileged domain 
cannot access any hardware directly, and so will need no additional device 
drivers.

Regarding the installation of RHEL3, I did use CentOS-3 instead. The main 
reason beeing that you can boostrap a CentOS-3 installation using yum in a 
chroot environment; I could not find a way to do this using up2date.

I created this installation on a regular CentOS-3 machine, than used tar to 
copy the whole installation and extracted it into the mounted root partition 
for the domU.

See here for ways to install a guest:
http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2005-04/msg00329.html

In general I would recommend to use rather RHEL4 as I recommend using a 2.6 
kernel with xen, and not a 2.4 one. Still if you need RHEL3, I've had not 
problems with the 2.6 kernel by now.

If you still have problems, you should probably post to the xen-users list 
including detailed information of error output.

Best Regards,
Michael Paesold