On 27/02/16 12:52, Yamaban wrote: > On Sat, 27 Feb 2016 13:20, Scot P. Floess wrote: >> >> Hit the send key before actually typing anything :( >> >> Was going to say - ah OK didn't understand your original question. >> I'm not entirely sure - I just followed directions :) However, you >> ask a reasonable question. >> >> On Sat, 27 Feb 2016, Karanbir Singh wrote: >> >>> On 27/02/16 01:41, Scot P. Floess wrote: >>> > > From George's original email, I had to: >>> > > * Install centos-release-xen from centos-extras >>> > > Then a yum update followed by a yum install xen. >>> > > That worked for me... >>> > >>> i had to do something similar, but my question is - one cant run xen >>> without the kernel, so why not have the xen package require the xen >>> kernel as a prereq ? > > IMHO, the best way to solve this would a additional line in the spec-file: > "Provide: kernel-dom0" for those kernel that are provide this > functionality. > > Then the xen-packages could "Require: kernel-dom0" > no matter which way the kernel functionality came to be. > > Maybe ask even across distros for such a implemention, > to get a more coherent experience for xen. yeah, the CentOS-5 and 6 Xen stacks already do something similar - which is why I was expecting the CentOS 7 one to do that as well. Let me work this with George and see where he thinks. Regards -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc _______________________________________________ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@xxxxxxxxxx https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
