[Fedora-xen] fc5 domU on rhel5 dom0

[Paul Wouters]

On Sat, 21 Apr 2007, Markus Armbruster wrote:

> > PW> That only works for "xen aware" OS'es. It won't work to run FC/RHEL 3/4.
> >
> > It doesn't seem to be working for me with fc5 either... It just so happened
> > that there was a fc5 kernel release (2312) yesterday or today, after I got
> > 2307 up and running. I did the yum update in the domU, but after a domU
> > shutdown and xm create, the domU wouldn't come back up again. I don't remember
> > the details, but the procedure above got me back in business. I'll try to
> > remember to take note of what fails when the next update happens (If I haven't
> > moved that domain to fc6 by then).
>
> What exactly did you do?  Which kernel (exact name and version) failed
> to install correctly in your domU?  Is it reproducible by forcing a
> reinstall?

I use the latest fedora-xen kernel of the dom0 to run the xenu's. Even to get
those to run with FC3 is relatively easy, and mostly involves getting newer
module-init-tools and udev/hotplug disabled (you don't need since you have
no real hardware, but older nash-hotplug gets confused)

Paul