[Fedora-xen] Centos5 Dom0 and Fedora7 DomU

[Lamont Peterson]

On Wednesday 06 June 2007 12:00pm, Brian McDonald wrote:
> -----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

Yes, you can.

Loopback mount (or whatever) the F7 domU to /mnt/temp/ (or whatever), 
run "chroot /mnt/temp/" (as root) and then you can run yum and do all kinds 
of other things from within there.

I haven't tried this yet with F7 or C5, but I have gotten things working just 
fine to create F6 and SLES10 on RHEL5.
-- 
Lamont Peterson <lamont at gurulabs.com>
Senior Instructor
Guru Labs, L.C. [ http://www.GuruLabs.com/ ]

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