On 7/1/05, Daniel Veillard <veillard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 01:18:21PM +0200, Bob Deblier wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 11:37 +0100, Dan Track wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > > Can someone please help to find a way, while also getting an > > > understanding as to how to boot a 2.4 kernel distro, in my case rhel > > > 3, as domU under the 2.6 kernel dom0 from FC4. > > > > > > I'm having problems. Basically I initially though that running a Xen > > > kernel would allow me to boot any os as a domU no matter what their > > > kernel was, but I think I have been mistaken with this. I am running > > No it's not that simple. You would have to compile that 2.4 kernel > to work with Xen. It's is not a matter of just tweaking a config file ! > > > > into problem while booting this. > > > > > > I would really appreciate any help provided. > > > > As I've mentioned before: the guest OS, i.e. the one running as a domU, > > also needs a specially compiled kernel. See > > http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenFaq#head-bb579ddda3999d87064a36b7d847fad8e39440ae > > > > This is because Xen is a paravirtualizer instead of a full virtualizer, > > like VMware. > > Until Xen3 and the new generation of Intel and AMD CPU offering hardware > support. Check the roadmap for Xen3 at the bottom of > > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/architecture.html > > > Wouldn't it be better to ask questions like this on the xen-users list? > > The lack of responses here seems to indicate a general lack of knowledge > > in this topic... > > The suggestion is good, but it's not there is lack of knowledge, rather > that it's 1/ hard 2/ work on old code 3/ would break his RHEL3 support anyway > and there is just too many thing to do to get Xen working smoothly on > the current kernel that nobody has time to waste on playing with 2.4 > > Daniel > > -- > Daniel Veillard | Red Hat Desktop team http://redhat.com/ > veillard@xxxxxxxxxx | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ > http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ > Hi All, Many thanks for your replies. Its a bit upsetting that it can't be done. But hey I'm glad I still spent the time asking because I realised a lot from it. Much appreciate your help. Thanks Dan -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
