Has anyone got rhel3 running under fc4 as a domu

Daniel Veillard veillard at redhat.com
Thu Jun 30 16:01:56 UTC 2005


On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 04:01:46PM +0100, Dan Track wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Thanks for the reply.
> 
> I've been banging my head againstg this for two days now.
> 
> I'm using FC4 kernel: 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4xen0
> 
> rhel3 is the standard kernel available on redhat. I had all this
> working under fc4_test1 without any problems. When FC4 came out I
> couldn't get it to work. I've tried all of the MAKEDEV commands but it
> still doesn't work.
> 
> The strange thing is that rhel4 does work under FC4 as a domU.
> 
> Any ideas. I'm really desparate for some.

  RHEL3 uses a 2.4 kernel. You're trying to boot it up with a 2.6 kernel,
so yeah having troubles is not surprizing. On the other hand RHEL4/FC4 
use 2.6, the gap between expected kernel and the one provided by Xen is
small in comparison, and that just works.

Daniel

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