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

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 09:13, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik at iki.fi> wrote:
> 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/

Currently the rules for EPEL are that it would not replace any
packages in the mainline. Since the kernel would be a later kernel
from 2.6.32 it would most likely replace it. Even if we found a way,
we need to find someone who would want to maintain it. Maintain for 7
years...



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