Hi Michael, Thanks for that. Where did you get the 2.4 kernel from. Because it doesn't come with FC4? Thanks Dan On 7/4/05, Michael Paesold <mpaesold@xxxxxx> wrote: > Dan Track wrote: > > Michael Paesold wrote: > > > So perhaps you could try the domU instead of the dom0 kernel for > > > the rhel3 guest. > > > > > > Hi > > > > Thanks for the reply. > > > > I've tried using the domU, here's my config: > > > > kernel ="/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4xenU" > > ramdisk = "/boot/initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4xenU.img" > > memory = 260 > > name = "rhel-3-es" > > nics = 1 > > disk = ['phy:hda3,sda1,w'] > > root = "/dev/sda1 ro" > > > > Any chance you could post your configs and how you installed rhel3. > > The only real difference here is that I did not use an initial ram disk. I > do not see a reason that it would be useful because the unprivileged domain > cannot access any hardware directly, and so will need no additional device > drivers. > > Regarding the installation of RHEL3, I did use CentOS-3 instead. The main > reason beeing that you can boostrap a CentOS-3 installation using yum in a > chroot environment; I could not find a way to do this using up2date. > > I created this installation on a regular CentOS-3 machine, than used tar to > copy the whole installation and extracted it into the mounted root partition > for the domU. > > See here for ways to install a guest: > http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2005-04/msg00329.html > > In general I would recommend to use rather RHEL4 as I recommend using a 2.6 > kernel with xen, and not a 2.4 one. Still if you need RHEL3, I've had not > problems with the 2.6 kernel by now. > > If you still have problems, you should probably post to the xen-users list > including detailed information of error output. > > Best Regards, > Michael Paesold > > -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
