AW: [Fedora-xen] Fedora 10 Release and Virtualization News / Fedora 8 dom0 support for F10 guest domUs

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 04:29:19AM -0800, fcxen user wrote:
> Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> >On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 12:38:29PM +0200, Pasi K?rkk?inen wrote:
> >>On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 12:31:31PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> >>>On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:06:36AM +0000, M A Young wrote:
> >>>>On Tue, 25 Nov 2008, Franz Von Hahn wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>>You could propably use CentOS 5.2 als a dom0. It is shipped with a 
> >>>>>kernel-xen package 2.6.18.x. It works fine for me but i haven't tried 
> >>>>>F10 so far since i'm acutally downloading the iso image of F10 which 
> >>>>>takes a long time when using a 1024kpb/s line, you know ;)
> >>>>I believe you need Centos 5.3 for F10 xen guest clients which, as 
> >>>>RHEL5.3 beta has only just appeared, probably won't be available until 
> >>>>after Fedora 8 has EOLed.
> >>>>
> >>>Yeah.. I believe RHEL 5.2 and CentOS 5.2 has too old python-virtinst
> >>>to handle/install F10 guests.. 
> >>>
> >>>RHEL 5.3 will contain updated python-virtinst that supports F10 guests. 
> >>>It is already included in RHEL 5.3 beta.
> >>>
> >>>http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-rawhide-domU-on-RHEL5.2-dom0--p19833725.html
> >>>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460585
> >>>
> >>>If you can't try RHEL 5.3 beta dom0, you could try with installing
> >>>python-virtinst-0.300.2-10.el5 or newer to your RHEL 5.2 / CentOS 5.2 
> >>>dom0..
> >>>it should add support for F10 domUs. For more information check that
> >>>bugzilla link above.
> >>>
> >>>RHEL 5.3 beta announcement:
> >>>https://www.redhat.com/archives/rhelv5-announce/2008-October/msg00000.html
> >>>
> >>>contains:
> >>>python-virtinst-0.300.2-11.el5
> >>>
> >>Oh, and it seems you also need newer libxc:
> >
> >Yes, that is correct - RHEL-5.2 Xen doesn't understand the new bzImage
> >style kernels. 
> >
> >Daniel
> 
> So is there any way to get F10 domU running on F8 dom0 ?
> 
> I don't want to have to downgrade all my dom0s to RHEL or CentOS ...
> 

Based on https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457199
"And we're including that patch now in F-8, F-9 and F-10" libxc bzImage
support should be fine in Fedora 8 (with all the updates installed).

Then there's the problem with python-virtinst.. 

I guess python-virtinst in Fedora 8 cannot handle F10 guests? 

Latest version in F8 updates seems to be: python-virtinst-0.300.2-4.fc8 

Which looks too old to support F10 guests..

So maybe you have to update python-virtinst in F8 and then try again? 

-- Pasi