[Fedora-xen] fc5 domU on rhel5 dom0

[Paul Wouters]

On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Robert Story wrote:

> I'm trying to get an existing domU from fc5 to load on rhel, not create a new
> one.
>
> MA> > Based on some googling, I made a custom initrd image with '--with xenblk
> MA> > --preload xenblk', but it didn't help any.. Any hints greatly appreciated...
> MA>
> MA> How did you install the PAE kernel?  With rpm in the domU?

> So, the good news is that I got it working... the bad news seems to be that
> everytime I want to update the domU kernel, I have to install it, shut down
> the domU, loop mount domU, create custom initrd and reboot. Rinse and
> repeat for each fc5 domU. If anyone has a way that this can be done within the
> domU so I can automate it w/out having to go to the dom0, that would be great..

RedHat is unwilling to fix this:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2007-April/msg00054.html

Perhaps some people should get together and start a yum repository to address
this issue through alternative means.

Paul