[rhelv6-list] [HOWTO] Running Xen 4.0 dom0 (host) on RHEL6

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 09:37:16AM -0500, Digimer wrote:
> On 11/25/2010 09:09 AM, Chris Adams wrote:
>> Once upon a time, Kirby Zhou<kirbyzhou at sohu-rd.com>  said:
>>> Is it possible to include XEN in the EPEL6 project?
>>
>> No, because EPEL is based on Fedora, and Fedora hasn't had a Xen dom0
>> kernel in several years.
>>
>> If you use Xen, stick with RHEL 5 for dom0.  You can run RHEL 6 guests.
>
> The downside to this method is that RHEL 5 sticks you with RHCS 2. I  
> know there is ongoing work to reintroduce dom0 into F15, though it may  
> not be until F16, depending on how quickly some patches can be oushed  
> into the mainline kernel. Give that, the question might be better asked 
> as:
>
> When Fedora re-introduces Xen dom0, could it be added to EPEL?
>

There has been talks about EPEL.

Fedora developer Michael Young has been building xen dom0 capable kernel rpms
for a long time now..

http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/myoung/dom0-kernel/

-- Pasi