AW: [Fedora-xen] Fedora 10 Release and Virtualization News / RHEL5/CentOS5 dom0 support for F10 guest domUs

[fcxen user]

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 ...