[Fedora-xen] Suse10.1 under FC6

Lee Hornby lee.hornby at btinternet.com
Sun Dec 3 09:56:35 UTC 2006


Thanks All

It was indeed the wrong kernel!

vmlinuz-2.6.16.21-0.25-xenpae worked (well started anyway).
Suspect I have more fun to come yet.

Although I did google the kernel RPM I was using and one the RMPfinders
had notes saying it was ok for both VT and pae.  

Regards
Lee

On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 17:46 -0500, Andrew Cathrow wrote:
> If we're talking about a para-virtualised machine rather than hardware
> virtualisation then you have to watch out for PAE and also 32/64 bit.
> 
> The FC6 xen kernel is PAE, which means that the guest kernel must also
> be pae, you can't mix them. You'd see the same thing if you tried to
> run the FC5 domU kernel on FC6
> Also you can't run a 64bit kernel on a 32bit host.
> 
> Given the file names I saw I'd suspect that the issue is that you've
> picked SUSE's non-pae kernel.
> 
> Aic
> 
> 
> On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 23:29 +0100, Paul Wouters wrote: 
> > On Sat, 2 Dec 2006, Andrew Cathrow wrote:
> > 
> > > I've not got openSUSE installed - but I downloaded the kernel-xen and
> > > kernel-xenpae RPM's to check the file names.
> > > What I saw was that the pae kernels were in the kernel-xenpae rpm and
> > > had a pae suffix.
> > >
> > >     vmlinuz-2.6.16.13-4-xenpae
> > >
> > > The invalid argument error (helpful eh?) typically means pae /non-pae
> > > mismatch.
> > 
> > Perhaps it is an ABI change? Eg xen 3.0.3 vs 3.0.2?
> > 
> > Can't you boot the redhat xen kernel on the suse OS. There can't be much
> > serious differences. The only catch here is that you will need to hack
> > the redhat initrd image if you install it on the dom0, or grab an initrd
> > from a guest installed redhat machine.
> > 
> > Paul
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