RHEL 4 xen guest on RHEL 5 ?

[clockwork at sigsys.org]

Agreed, the problem however is that the myriad of machines I have the vast
majority do not support hardware assisted virtualization. So I'm stuck. Does
anybody know when update 5 is coming out ?



On 4/28/07, Mike Kearey <mkearey at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> clockwork at sigsys.org wrote:
> > I know its doable. I want to know if there is a supported/official way
> > to do
> > it yet. I would imagine something would have to be modified in the
> install
> > tree to do it. virt-install sure doesnt like stock rhel 4.4. I'm also
> > working on para-virt hardware for the most part. (Really this is an
> apache
> > 2.0 issue since thats what we need and there is no clean and
> maintainable
> > way to do 2.0 on rhel 5. [which IMNSHO was a bad move for redhat]).
> >
>
>
> - RHEL 4 update 4 is supported as a fully virtualised guest on a RHEL5
> virtualisation host. Of course, fully virtualised requires some hardware
> assistance - a CPU with VT or VME .
>
> - Only RHEL4 update 5 will be supported as a para-virt guest on a RHEL 5
> virtualisation host
>
>
> BTW, RHEL5 is aimed at being a virtualisation host as well as a host for
> web server and other services. Virtualisation is a way of solving the
> problem you have - the need to run httpd 2.0 versions. The best approach
> is to run a RHEL 4 guest to host the httpd 2.0 server.
>
>
>
>
>
> Cheers
>
>
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