Hiya,
I'd like to install RHEL4 inside a FC5 or FC6 Dom0 to do some Squid development and regression testing on. Has anyone done this? Any pointers to what I should be looking at doing?
Bootstrapping Debian under Debian wasn't too hard - just debootstrap into a new filesystem, then start domU up to finish configuration. I've had absolutely no luck with the FC5 and FC6 supplied xenguest-install python stuff to bootstrap PVM guests.
Thanks,
Adrian
Adrian Chadd wrote:
Hiya,
I'd like to install RHEL4 inside a FC5 or FC6 Dom0 to do some Squid development and regression testing on. Has anyone done this? Any pointers to what I should be looking at doing?
Bootstrapping Debian under Debian wasn't too hard - just debootstrap into a new filesystem, then start domU up to finish configuration. I've had absolutely no luck with the FC5 and FC6 supplied xenguest-install python stuff to bootstrap PVM guests.
Thanks,
Adrian
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You will find some good documentation @ http://people.redhat.com/~riel/RHEL4-Xen-HOWTO
If you do not have a processor with the VT extension, you can always use qemu to install RHEL4 in FV.
As written in the doc, you will need to use the kernel from http://people.redhat.com/~jbaron/rhel4/RPMS.kernel/
Have fun, Mono
Am Mittwoch, den 22.11.2006, 17:06 +0100 schrieb Monolive:
Adrian Chadd wrote:
Hiya,
I'd like to install RHEL4 inside a FC5 or FC6 Dom0 to do some Squid development and regression testing on. Has anyone done this? Any pointers to what I should be looking at doing?
[...]
You will find some good documentation @ http://people.redhat.com/~riel/RHEL4-Xen-HOWTO
If you do not have a processor with the VT extension, you can always use qemu to install RHEL4 in FV.
AFAIK, it's no longer possible to use a FV RHEL4 image which has been created with the latest version of QEMU. Reason is, that QEMU now uses Copy-on-Write disk images.
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Thorsten Scherf wrote:
If you do not have a processor with the VT extension, you can always use qemu to install RHEL4 in FV.
AFAIK, it's no longer possible to use a FV RHEL4 image which has been created with the latest version of QEMU. Reason is, that QEMU now uses Copy-on-Write disk images.
eh? Even if that was an issue (I am running qemu fine without COW files), then you can just boot the image with qemu, nfs mount your new image file from the xen server, copy the files onto the image, unmount, and throw away the qemu image.
Paul
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 08:41:13AM +0100, Thorsten Scherf wrote:
Am Mittwoch, den 22.11.2006, 17:06 +0100 schrieb Monolive:
Adrian Chadd wrote:
Hiya,
I'd like to install RHEL4 inside a FC5 or FC6 Dom0 to do some Squid development and regression testing on. Has anyone done this? Any pointers to what I should be looking at doing?
[...]
You will find some good documentation @ http://people.redhat.com/~riel/RHEL4-Xen-HOWTO
If you do not have a processor with the VT extension, you can always use qemu to install RHEL4 in FV.
AFAIK, it's no longer possible to use a FV RHEL4 image which has been created with the latest version of QEMU. Reason is, that QEMU now uses Copy-on-Write disk images.
Well, QEMU doesn't use any particular type of image by default - that's entirely up to whomever creates the disk image. QEMU has about 6 different kinds of images it is able to use.
You can trivially convert between disk image formats using QEMU's own tool set, eg
qemu-img convert -f qcow source.img -O raw dest.img
will convert from 'qcow' format to 'raw' - the latter being the format Xen wants.
Dan.
Am Dienstag, den 28.11.2006, 15:31 +0000 schrieb Daniel P. Berrange:
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 08:41:13AM +0100, Thorsten Scherf wrote:
Am Mittwoch, den 22.11.2006, 17:06 +0100 schrieb Monolive:
Adrian Chadd wrote:
Hiya,
I'd like to install RHEL4 inside a FC5 or FC6 Dom0 to do some Squid development and regression testing on. Has anyone done this? Any pointers to what I should be looking at doing?
[...]
You will find some good documentation @ http://people.redhat.com/~riel/RHEL4-Xen-HOWTO
If you do not have a processor with the VT extension, you can always use qemu to install RHEL4 in FV.
AFAIK, it's no longer possible to use a FV RHEL4 image which has been created with the latest version of QEMU. Reason is, that QEMU now uses Copy-on-Write disk images.
Well, QEMU doesn't use any particular type of image by default - that's entirely up to whomever creates the disk image. QEMU has about 6 different kinds of images it is able to use.
You can trivially convert between disk image formats using QEMU's own tool set, eg
qemu-img convert -f qcow source.img -O raw dest.img
will convert from 'qcow' format to 'raw' - the latter being the format Xen wants.
Ah. That's the trick. :)
Thanks, Thorsten