include XEN kernel & tools in CentOS 5.1 kickstart?

[Michael DeHaan]

Rudi Ahlers wrote:
> Pablo Iranzo Gómez wrote:
>> On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
>>  
>>> This is a bit above me.
>>>
>>> I use SME 7.3  (which is built on CentOS 4.6) as inhouse production
>>> server, and then I have my (soon to colocate) test server, which
>>> currently runs CentOS 5.1 64.
>>> How would I test an rpm on an already running system?
>>>     
>>
>> rpm --test
>>
>> and the proposed  for testing dependencies: rpm --justdb --root
>> /tmp/tempath/ package1, package2
>>
>>  
>>> What I have done till now, is todo a base install, and then create only
>>> use the files installed (as per /installation.log) in my new CD. 
>>> There's
>>> still quite a few programs that I don't need and could probably delete
>>> them from the CentOS folder on the CD, but I still need to figure out
>>> how these file are installed. I saw the repodata/comps.xml file, but
>>> it's LONG, and have a lot of different languages, not some something I
>>> can take on right now. It's almost easier to run something like "yum
>>> remove {package-name} from the kickstart file
>>>     
>>
>>     You can put "-package" at %packages
>>
>>     In order to have a minimal one just test with "%packages --nobase"
>> and begin adding packages you find missing on the target system (ssh, 
>> joe,
>> etc)
>>
>>     Have a look at the --root trick to check all "really" required
>> files ;)
>>
>>     Regards
>>     Pablo
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>>
>>   
> Ok, this project didn't work as well as I thought. So, I installed an 
> "empty" system, without any repositories as well.
> I'm going to take a new approach, and install xen, kernel-xen 
> virt-manager & virsh via yum and then use that to build up my rpm list 
> to work with.
>
> So, which repositories do I need on CentOS 5.1 x64 to install xen?
>

All of that should be in the base repos for pretty much any relatively 
recent distro.
Not sure what "without any repositories means".

This isn't CentOS specific but is worth reading:  
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Fedora8VirtQuickStart

--Michael