[et-mgmt-tools] RHEL 5.0 Beta 2 and Paravirtualization

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 01:30:30PM +0530, satyaakam goswami wrote:
> Hi All,
>          I did not know where to start thought this list will be good
> place to begin I am trying to install xen in paravirtualized mode ,
> and RHEL 5 Beta comes with virt-manager 0.2.5 i am trying to install a
> guest system ie: RHEL 3.0 the preliminary questions i have are as
> follows
> 
> 1)Does the virt-manager version 0.2.5 support RHEL 3.0 as guest system
> in paravirtualized mode.

No. This isn't a limitation of virt-manager - there is no paravirt kernel
available for RHEL 3, so your only option is to do fullvirt for RHEL 3.

> 2)Are there any other tools to start a kickstart installation for RHEL
> 3.0 as guest on RHEL 5.0 beta 2.0

You can either use  virt-manager  or the command line tool virt-install.

Regards,
Dan.
-- 
|=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston.  +1 978 392 2496 -=|
|=-           Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/              -=|
|=-               Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/               -=|
|=-  GnuPG: 7D3B9505   F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505  -=|