[fedora-virt] how to active XEN on Fedora 12

[Dan Burkland]

Xen uses a special kernel so as far as I know you will first have to remove the default one with "yum remove kernel". Then try the " yum install xen virt-manager kernel-xen" command and it should work.

Regards,

Dan 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Dario Lesca
> Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 7:24 AM
> To: Boris Derzhavets
> Cc: Fedora Virt; Fedora Project List
> Subject: Re: [fedora-virt] how to active XEN on Fedora 12
> 
> Il giorno mer, 23/12/2009 alle 05.03 -0800, Boris Derzhavets ha scritto:
> > You can use F12's KVM, but once again Libvirt will be required to
> > manage VMs.
> > F12 is a bleeding edge system for development, high performance
> > virtualization
> > environment. You might not need it at all.
> > So,  VMware might be the best option for you.
> Thanks Boris, I use F12 on my Laptop and I want run some VM for test new
> version of distro.
> 
> Now I use qemu-kvm but each machine use 30/40% of CPU of host system.
> 
> I want use XEN to see if it works better...
> 
> I have found this note:
> http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/rhel-centos-xen-virtualization-installation-
> howto.html
> 
> But if I run "yum install xen virt-manager kernel-xen" this is the
> output:
> 
> > % sudo LANG=C yum install xen virt-manager kernel-xen
> > Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, presto, refresh-packagekit
> > Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
> >  * fedora: ftp.uni-bayreuth.de
> >  * livna: ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de
> >  * rpmfusion-free: ftp.nb.lug.ro
> >  * rpmfusion-free-updates: ftp.nb.lug.ro
> >  * rpmfusion-nonfree: ftp.nb.lug.ro
> >  * rpmfusion-nonfree-updates: ftp.nb.lug.ro
> >  * updates: ftp.upjs.sk
> > Setting up Install Process
> > Package xen-3.4.1-5.fc12.x86_64 already installed and latest version
> > Package virt-manager-0.8.0-7.fc12.noarch already installed and latest
> version
> > Package kernel-2.6.31.6-166.fc12.x86_64 already installed and latest
> version
> > Nothing to do
> 
> then I'm looking for some thing to do after this....
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
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> Dario Lesca <d.lesca at solinos.it>
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