This section provides the requirements for para-virtualized drivers with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Before you install the para-virtualized drivers the following requirements (listed below) must be met.
You will need the following RPM packages for para-virtualized drivers for each guest operating system installation.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 requires:
kmod-xenpv.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 requires:
kmod-xenpv,
modules-init-tools (for versions prior to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.6z you require modules-init-tools-3.1-0.pre5.3.4.el4_6.1 or greater), and
modversions.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 requires:
kmod-xenpv.
Minimum host operating system version
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 or higher
Minimum guest operating system version
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 and higher
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 6 and higher
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Update 9 and higher
You require at least 50MB of free disk space in the /lib filesystem