[Fedora-xen] Fedora 10 Release and Virtualization News

[Cole Robinson]

fcxen user wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Dale, great stuff. This question is a little late for your release, but I know 
> it will be coming up alot soon, so I hope you can add it to your docs:
> 
> Is it possible to run a Fedora 10 pv domU on a Fedora 8 dom0 ?
> And if it is, what steps are necessary to be able to install the F10 domU with 
> virt-install and manage it with xm/virsh/etc that differ from what is required 
> to do the same for F7/8/9,etc domUs?
> 
> With the standard yum package: python-virtinst-0.300.2-4.fc8
> one gets:
> ValueError: Invalid URL location given: 
> http://mirror.x.y/pub/fedora/linux/releases/10/Fedora/x86_64/os/images/xen/vmlinuz 
> [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
>

That version of virt-install doesn't know how to find the xen
kernel in F10 install trees:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458164

I built a fixed package for this yesterday though, which should
now be in updates-testing:

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=71125

So give that a shot and see if it works for you.

Thanks,
Cole