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

[Mike Khusid]

  Pasi,

A few comments about the HOWTO.

You recommend to disable SELinux.  SELinux underwent very significant 
updates between RHEL5 and RHEL6 and I would encourage you to try keeping 
it enabled.  I wouldn't be surprised if it "just works".

In case you need to provide an additional SELinux policies, here are 
guidelines for SELinux policy modules: 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/SELinux/PolicyModules.  I 
am a fan of having policy as a separate subpackage.

Another comment is venerable "rpm -Uvh".  RHEL6 introduces "yum history" 
which is a very handy way of knowing what was installed when... and 
reverting it as needed... but it needs yum command to be used.   Could 
you please replace those rpm commands with "yum localinstall 
--nogpgcheck" (you'll need the latter option for your instructions, 
unless you want to add steps to produce signed rpms).

This won't make Red Hat support Xen in RHEL6, of course :)  But these 
are "good things to do".

-- 
Mike Khusid
Product Manager
Red Hat Enterprise Linux


On 11/20/2010 09:08 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Some people here might be interested in running Xen 4.0 hypervisor
> (host/dom0) on Redhat Enterprise Linux 6.
>
> Here's a howto that shows how it can be done:
> http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/RHEL6Xen4Tutorial
>
> This method is unsupported by Redhat, but it's still possible :)
>
> -- Pasi
>
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