Re: installing xen on c7

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On 28 februarie 2016 12:45:05 EET, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>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
AFAICS, a simple "Requires: kernel >= 3.18" in the xen package should be enough, at least for the CentOS ecosystem... although I think that elrepo's kernels, on purpose, do not provide "kernel" but "'kernel-ml".

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