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

[Dan Track <dan track gmail com>]

Hi Michael,

Thanks for that.

Where did you get the 2.4 kernel from. Because it doesn't come with FC4?

Thanks
Dan

On 7/4/05, Michael Paesold <mpaesold gmx at> wrote:
> 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
> 
>