[Fedora-xen] Centos5 Dom0 and Fedora7 DomU

[Markus Armbruster]

"Brian McDonald" <brian.mcdonald at mcdees-specialties.com> writes:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Markus Armbruster [mailto:armbru at redhat.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 1:51 PM
> To: Brian McDonald
> Cc: fedora-xen at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [Fedora-xen] Centos5 Dom0 and Fedora7 DomU
>
> "Brian McDonald" <brian.mcdonald at mcdees-specialties.com> writes:
>
>> I am having problems getting a fedora7 domu running under my Centos5 Dom0
>> (this is a centos5 server no graphical interface)
>>
>> I followed the same steps to created the fedora 7 domu as I have for
>> creating the cenots5 domu that I have on the same box.
>>
>> I downloaded the vmlinux and initrd from here
>>
> ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/i386/os/
>> images/xen/
>
>>>Wait a sec!  You simply plunked kernel & initrd into your /boot?  That
>>>bypasses the scripts in the rpms, and you know, those are there for a
>>>reason.  Can you try installing kernel-xen with yum?
>
> You can not use yum if the operating system is not installed in the domU
> This is a centos5 server that I am trying to load a fedora7 domU

Why can't you simply create the guest with virt-install?