[Fedora-xen] Is my guest hosed?

[master at bradleyland.com]

> Wow, my first question to the list, and I stumped all of the experts ;-)
>
> Let's try a slightly different approach.
>
> Does anyone have, or know where I can get a vmlinuz-2.6.17-1.????.fc5xenU
> kernel file? I think if I could just find a kernel of that approximate
> vintage, I'll be able to at least boot the guest and get it going again.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Brian
>

Try this -- mount the guest partition (lvm or backing file, whatever you
used) into the dom0. Then, use yum to upgrade the guest to FC6. yum can
take a command line switch to point to a chroot path. So, if you mounted
the guest into /mnt/xen_guest, you would use yum as

yum --installroot=/mnt/xen_guest update

or something like that. You still may need to make a workable initrd as
well. There are threads here and on xensource covering the process.

I don't think you're going to fix an FC5 guest and get it to run under
FC6. At least paravirtualized.

And BTW, I'm no expert, but I play one on the internet.

hth,

dave