AW: [Fedora-xen] Fedora 10 Release and Virtualization News / RHEL5/CentOS5 dom0 support for F10 guest domUs

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 12:31:31PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:06:36AM +0000, M A Young wrote:
> > On Tue, 25 Nov 2008, Franz Von Hahn wrote:
> > 
> > >You could propably use CentOS 5.2 als a dom0. It is shipped with a 
> > >kernel-xen package 2.6.18.x. It works fine for me but i haven't tried 
> > >F10 so far since i'm acutally downloading the iso image of F10 which 
> > >takes a long time when using a 1024kpb/s line, you know ;)
> > 
> > I believe you need Centos 5.3 for F10 xen guest clients which, as RHEL5.3 
> > beta has only just appeared, probably won't be available until after 
> > Fedora 8 has EOLed.
> > 
> 
> Yeah.. I believe RHEL 5.2 and CentOS 5.2 has too old python-virtinst
> to handle/install F10 guests.. 
> 
> RHEL 5.3 will contain updated python-virtinst that supports F10 guests. 
> It is already included in RHEL 5.3 beta.
> 
> http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-rawhide-domU-on-RHEL5.2-dom0--p19833725.html
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460585
> 
> If you can't try RHEL 5.3 beta dom0, you could try with installing
> python-virtinst-0.300.2-10.el5 or newer to your RHEL 5.2 / CentOS 5.2 dom0..
> it should add support for F10 domUs. For more information check that
> bugzilla link above.
> 
> RHEL 5.3 beta announcement:
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/rhelv5-announce/2008-October/msg00000.html
> 
> contains:
> python-virtinst-0.300.2-11.el5
> 

Oh, and it seems you also need newer libxc:

"RHEL5.3 xen: include support for booting Fedora 10 DomU (i.e. bzImage support)":
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457199

-- Pasi