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

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 06:54:02PM -0500, Mike Khusid wrote:
>  Pasi,
>
> A few comments about the HOWTO.
>

All feedback is appreciated :)

> 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".
>

Yep, it's the "old bad habbit".. I'll try it out with SElinux and update
the tutorial. IIRC earlier there was some simple issue,
so it might very well just work today..

> 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.
>

Thanks. I just noticed SElinux policy bug in fedora 389ds rpms two weeks ago,
so that would be another good candidate to practice with :)

> 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).
>

Ok, thanks for that aswell. Good to know.

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

:)

Thanks for the reply and suggestions!

-- Pasi


> -- 
> 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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