AW: [Fedora-xen] Fedora 10 Release and Virtualization News / Fedora 8 dom0 support for F10 guest domUs

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 09:54:13AM -0500, Cole Robinson wrote:
> Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 04:29:19AM -0800, fcxen user wrote:
> >> Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> >>> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 12:38:29PM +0200, Pasi K?rkk?inen wrote:
> >>>> 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:
> >>> Yes, that is correct - RHEL-5.2 Xen doesn't understand the new bzImage
> >>> style kernels. 
> >>>
> >>> Daniel
> >> So is there any way to get F10 domU running on F8 dom0 ?
> >>
> >> I don't want to have to downgrade all my dom0s to RHEL or CentOS ...
> >>
> > 
> > Based on https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457199
> > "And we're including that patch now in F-8, F-9 and F-10" libxc bzImage
> > support should be fine in Fedora 8 (with all the updates installed).
> > 
> > Then there's the problem with python-virtinst.. 
> > 
> > I guess python-virtinst in Fedora 8 cannot handle F10 guests? 
> > 
> > Latest version in F8 updates seems to be: python-virtinst-0.300.2-4.fc8 
> > 
> > Which looks too old to support F10 guests..
> > 
> > So maybe you have to update python-virtinst in F8 and then try again? 
> 
> I posted this elsewhere in the thread, but just yesterday I built a new
> F8 virtinst which should allow installing F10 xen guests:
> 
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=71125
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458164
> 
> It should be in updates testing now. Give it a +1 in bodhi if it works
> for you, and the package will eventually make it to the plain updates repo:
> 
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/FEDORA-2008-10394
> 

Thanks for the links.

I think it would be a good idea to add a note to F10 release notes that if
you want to use Fedora 8 as dom0 to run F10 guests, you need to have all the
latest updates installed to your F8 dom0, plus you need to have that
python-virtinst-0.300.2-5.fc8.noarch.rpm from updates-testing.

-- Pasi